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Meanings of lignite in English
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Examples for "brown coal"
Examples for "brown coal"
1
They distill it on the spot, out of the brown coal.
2
It is called surturbrand, a variety of brown coal or lignite, found chiefly in Iceland.
3
There is trade in silk, honey and wax, and brown coal is found in the neighbourhood.
4
And we are more than brown coal.
5
Similarly, producers of higher-cost brown coal will be taxed at the same rate as black coal miners.
1
There was a low-burning fire, mostly glowing wood coals.
2
Zeb sliced off some venison cutlets and cooked them to a turn over hot wood coals.
3
This precaution rarely failed with good hard- wood coals.
4
Plump brook trout, fresh from icy water, delicately broiled over searing wood coals, are the finest of food.
5
There was no fireplace, and the count had the place warmed by means of a big brass brazier filled with wood coals.
Usage of lignite in English
1
Solid Energy says it's not abandoning plans to mine lignite in Southland.
2
Some half a million acres in Germany have been used for mining lignite.
3
Hegen flew above lignite mines in the Lusatia mining district of eastern Germany.
4
There are iron and lignite mines, but the output is small.
5
At least six billion tonnes of lignite lie under Southland farmland.
6
Any carbonaceous fuel, such as, say, lignite, coal, or charcoal, can be employed.
7
Three new lignite-fired power plants are planned in west Macedonia.
8
Kosovo has the world's fifth-largest lignite reserves and relies on coal to produce power.
9
Tetovo and Tuzla are heavily reliant on high-polluting lignite coal-powered industry and domestic heating.
10
Parliament's chief environmental watchdog wants a halt to the mining of lignite in Southland.
11
More people are aware that lignite is something we have to stop digging for.
12
Opposition against Solid Energy's two billion dollar plans to mine Southland lignite is growing.
13
The only thing they have plenty of is lignite, which isn't even proper coal.'
14
Roumanite, or Rumanian amber, a dark reddish resin, occurring with lignite in Tertiary deposits.
15
Salt winds from the White Sea mix with naphtha and lignite from the shipyards.
16
Coal, and in much larger quantities lignite, have been found in many parts of Alaska.
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Lignite through the time