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Wood coal   /wʊd koʊl/   Listen
Wood coal

noun
1.
Intermediate between peat and bituminous coal.  Synonyms: brown coal, lignite.
2.
A carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air.  Synonym: charcoal.






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... dead and converted into peat, with stems and roots in it; that, again, into sunken forests, like those to be seen below high-water mark on many coasts of this island. You find gradations between them and beds of lignite, or wood coal; then gradations between lignite and common or bituminous coal; and then gradations between common coal and culm, or anthracite, such as is found in South Wales. Have you not a right to say, "These are all but varieties of the same kind of thing—namely, vegetable matter? ...
— Town Geology • Charles Kingsley



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