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 "
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.
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 .
6 Fine lamb ribs basted with honey and cumin, cooked over apple- wood coals ; red bass fresh from the sea; peacocks stuffed with rice and mushrooms.
7 The heap of white ashes, under which the wood coals were still alive in the big brazier, diffused a little warmth through the chilly room.
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Translations for wood coal