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Lignite   /lˈɪgnˌaɪt/   Listen
Lignite

noun
1.
Intermediate between peat and bituminous coal.  Synonyms: brown coal, wood coal.






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"Lignite" Quotes from Famous Books



... and doing topographical work, discovered several lignite seams in the hills on the east coast; he had finished his chart of the island. The mainland is simply a range of mountains which have been at some remote period partly submerged. The land meets the sea in steep cliffs and bold ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... boilers, conversion into producer gas, or into coke, briquettes, etc. 2. The prevention of waste, through the study of the possibility of improvement in the methods of mining, shipping, utilizing, etc. 3. The inspection and analysis of coal and lignite purchased under specification for the use of the Government, to ascertain its heating ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 • Herbert M. Wilson



Words linked to "Lignite" :   jet, coal, wood coal, humate, brown coal



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