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- noun Plural form of
lignite .
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Examples
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This problem, like that on the lignites, is very urgent, and the Research Council has placed it in the front rank for the moment.
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If, as the Council believes, it will be demonstrated that the cost of briquetted lignites is much lower than the price of high grade coal per ton, an enormous service will be done to the public in those Provinces.
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Experts say the technology is especially suitable for low-rank coals like lignites and sub-bituminous coal, which produce less heat when burned due to their high ash content, and are highly polluting.
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There are massive deposits of brown coal and lignites in many parts of the world that can be converted to ‘petroleum’ if the prices are sufficiently high.
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Many a time, instead of enjoying the company of lads of my own age, I had preferred dusting these graphites, anthracites, coals, lignites, and peats!
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They are made from the low-grade coals, culm, slack and lignites, blended with coal-tar pitch.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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Another system being tried abroad, though scarcely past the experimental stage in this country, establishes great electric power-houses at the coal mines to use the culm, low-grade slack, and lignites, the lowest form of coal, in short, all the waste of the mines.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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It may have originated with some dealer in _lignites_; but plain dealers would like to be informed what _lignites_ are?
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Briquettes of this kind are made to a large extent from the tertiary lignites in the vicinity of Cologne; they are used mainly for house fuel on the lower Rhine and in Holland, and occasionally come to
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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To judge from the remains of animals and plants, the climate must have been at least as warm as that at present; and this condition of things must have prevailed over a period of some thousands of years to explain the thick deposits of peat, from which originated the lignites.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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