lignite

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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.

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  1. noun A soft, brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetable matter has proceeded further than in peat but not as far as in bituminous coal. Also called brown coal.

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  • Analysts said the drop in German industrial emissions was largely due to a switch by utilities to burning bituminous coal from more carbon-intensive lignite, also knows as brown coal. —  Reuters: Top News
  • Freeman worked for Dolet Hills Mining Co., a Swepco subsidiary that provides lignite -- soft coal -- for the 650-megawatt Cleco-Swepco Dolet Hills Power Station.
  • The researchers will use North Dakota lignite, which typically contains about 40 percent moisture. —  U.S. Department of Energy - Press Releases
  • Next comes lignite, then sub-bituminous, bituminous, and in tectonically active regions -- anthracite. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • The 1,100-megawatt plant near Underwood, in central North Dakota, is one of the largest in the study and burns lignite, a low-grade coal that is abundant in the state. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
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/ˈlɪgnaɪt/
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