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Word | Lignite |
Chinese Meaning | 褐煤 |
intermediate between peat and bituminous coal / Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal. / a soft brownish coal showing traces of plant structure, intermediate between bituminous coal and peat., | |
Usage | ⇒ They used lignite to light the fire ⇒ Peats will in situ change successively to lignite , to bituminous coal, and eventually to anthracite. |
Synonyms | brown coal, coal, alabaster, jet, mineral, wood coal, carbon, charcoal, coke, anthracite, aragonite, asbestos, asphalt, azurite, barite, bauxite, boron, brimstone, brookite, calcite, |
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