brown coal
Britishnoun
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Western Macedonia has for decades been the centre of Greece's brown coal mining industry that fed its lignite-fired power stations.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
Poland is taking strides in embracing renewable energy, but gets almost 70% of its energy from black and brown coal.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
"It is the last place where brown coal will be mined - not a symbol for more-of-the-same, but for the final frontier."
From Reuters ● Jan. 14, 2023
Lignite, or brown coal, the only fossil fuel that is still mined in Germany, is burned to generate power.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
In a brown coal deposit of Tertiary, or at least of "interglacial" age—whatever that may mean in Switzerland—he found some fragments of wood so interlaced as to resemble wattle or basket-work.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
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