lignite

• She had never seen anything quite like it before; it was lignite, brown coal, a material between peat and bituminous coal. —  The Plains of Passage
• Even under inferior coals such as lignite it is sometimes possible to find suitable clays. —  1. Refractories
• Other combustible materials such as coal, lignite, peat, rice husks, etc. can also be used as fillers and should be prepared like sawdust. —  1. Refractories
• Relative to the mining techniques for metallic raw materials and fuel minerals (coal, lignite, peat, asphalt, bituminous shale), the specific quantities of exploited raw materials are usually greater. —  Chapter 17
• If your cousin Annie has a jet belt-clasp or bracelet, and if you find in aunt Edith's box of old treasures an odd- shaped brooch of jet, you may remember the coal again; for jet is only one kind of lignite, which is a name for a certain preparation of coal But here is another surprise of a different kind. —  The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

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