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lignite::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brown coal, wood coal |
| Type of | coal, humate |
| Has types | jet |
Examples of lignite
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A lusty Greek peasant shows a British writer how to live and run a lignite mine.
From the post-gazette.com
You were the one down in Southland turning the first sod with the lignite plant.
From the nbr.co.nz
It converts lignite to methane using oxygen to gasify coal in 14 Luri gasifiers.
From the guardian.co.uk
The lignite is used for power generation at nearby power plants such as Neurath.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The project has also received support from North Dakota's lignite coal industry.
From the sciencedaily.com
Many of Gujarat's industries rely on dirty, highly polluting lignite for power.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hard coal and lignite accounted for about 41 percent, and natural gas, 14 percent.
From the bloomberg.com
Only lignite and potash salt are available in economically significant quantities.
From the en.wikipedia.org
An example is the reactions by which organic material becomes lignite or coal.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
- Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad, is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between coal and peat. ...
- A low-grade, brownish-black coal
- Is the lowest rank of coal, often referred to as brown coal, used almost exclusively as fuel for steam-electric power generation. It is brownish-black and has a high inherent moisture content, sometimes as high as 45 percent. ...
- A soft shiny black variety of coal, aboriginally used to manufacture decorative objects.
- A soft, brown coal formed by the further compression of peat.
- A low-rank coal with a relatively high moisture and low heat/energy content. Ranging in colour from black to brown, lignite is used in power generation.
- Also called brown coal, it is burnable, softer than coal, and has the texture of the original plant fragments preserved.
- A brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetal material has proceeded further than in peat but not so far as subbituminous coal.
