Intermediate between peat and bituminous coal.
A carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air.
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Examples for "lignite"
Examples for "lignite"
1Solid Energy says it's not abandoning plans to mine lignite in Southland.
2Some half a million acres in Germany have been used for mining lignite.
3Hegen flew above lignite mines in the Lusatia mining district of eastern Germany.
4There are iron and lignite mines, but the output is small.
5At least six billion tonnes of lignite lie under Southland farmland.
1They distill it on the spot, out of the brown coal.
2It is called surturbrand, a variety of brown coal or lignite, found chiefly in Iceland.
3There is trade in silk, honey and wax, and brown coal is found in the neighbourhood.
4And we are more than brown coal.
5Similarly, producers of higher-cost brown coal will be taxed at the same rate as black coal miners.
1There was a low-burning fire, mostly glowing wood coals.
2Zeb sliced off some venison cutlets and cooked them to a turn over hot wood coals.
3This precaution rarely failed with good hard- wood coals.
4Plump brook trout, fresh from icy water, delicately broiled over searing wood coals, are the finest of food.
5There was no fireplace, and the count had the place warmed by means of a big brass brazier filled with wood coals.
6Fine lamb ribs basted with honey and cumin, cooked over apple- wood coals; red bass fresh from the sea; peacocks stuffed with rice and mushrooms.
7The heap of white ashes, under which the wood coals were still alive in the big brazier, diffused a little warmth through the chilly room.
Translations for wood coal