Lignite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIGNITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• brown coal, a stage in the conversion of vegetable matter into coal
• a soft brownish coal showing traces of plant structure, intermediate between bituminous coal and peat.
• woody textured rock used as fuel
• 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.
• intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of coal

Words related to LIGNITE

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Words that contain LIGNITE

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How to use LIGNITE in a sentence

• It rests upon a bed of lignite, or bituminous shale, and a coarse, iron-cemented conglomerate.
• The lignite mines opened by the government at Pernik in 1891 yielded in 1904 142,000 tons.
• Nature has also been kind to the treeless regions beyond, for underneath the fertile prairie, veins of good lignite coal of varying thickness are successively cut by the river.
• In Silesia, Saxony, and in the district about Bonn, large quantities of lignite are mined, and used as fuel.
• Extensive deposits of lignite are met with both in the Dominion and in the United States, whilst true coal-measures flank both sides of the Rocky Mountains.
• Nevertheless, he says, when pyrites seams are avoided and the lignite is properly handled, it forms a valuable fuel, especially for local consumption.
• The searching occupies but little time, as they look only among the lignite, which is at once obvious.
• The amber occurs in both these, the clue to its existence being the presence of small masses of lignite.
• The coal already mined includes both lignite and bituminous varieties and furnishes fuel for the railroads, steamboats and power plants, giving very satisfactory results.
• The coals thus far commercially mined are chiefly lignite and bituminous.
• The coal measures include bituminous, lignite and anthracite, and are of great extent in the foothills of the eastern part of the county.

Similar words containing LIGN without suffix ite

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