brown coal

British  

noun

1. a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite

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Example Sentences

Mayor Panagiotis Plakentas fears what will happen to the town of Ptolemaida and the surrounding region when the last of the brown coal power plants in northern Greece close next year.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

The cheapest form — brown coal — was most in demand.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022

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

According to the filing, Enkraft is asking management to “prepare draft agreements or plans corresponding reports for the lawful spin-off” of RWE’s subsidiary RWE Power AG, which includes the utility’s brown coal activities.

From Reuters • Mar. 22, 2022

The coal is of the best quality of that kind of brown coal generally called cannel coal, and is occasionally met with in immense seams.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von