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Lignite

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.

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Coal 76% connected

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

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Humate 76% connected

A salt of humic acid.

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biomass noun · 78% connection

plant materials and animal waste used as fuel

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Coal oil noun · 78% connection

a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

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Depletion noun · 78% connection

the act of decreasing something markedly

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Efficiency noun · 78% connection

skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; "she did the work with great efficiency"

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Ember noun · 78% connection

a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

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Energy noun · 78% connection

a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"

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Fossil noun · 78% connection

the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil

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Fossil fuel noun · 78% connection

fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content

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Fuel verb · 78% connection

provide with a combustible substance that provides energy; "fuel aircraft, ships, and cars"

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Gas noun · 78% connection

a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely

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Geothermal adjective · 78% connection

of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth

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Geothermal energy noun · 78% connection

energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth

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Geothermic adjective · 78% connection

of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth

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Kerosene noun · 78% connection

a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

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Kerosine noun · 78% connection

a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

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Lamp oil noun · 78% connection

a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

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Natural adjective · 78% connection

in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science…

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a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes

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Anthraciferous adjective · 78% connection

Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.

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Anthracite noun · 78% connection

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…

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Anthracitic adjective · 78% connection

Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations.

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Aphemia noun · 78% connection

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

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Ashes n. pl. · 78% connection

The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.

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Basin noun · 78% connection

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied…

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Bovey coal unknown · 78% connection

A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devo…

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Brand verb · 78% connection

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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Breeze noun · 78% connection

Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

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Calamander wood unknown · 78% connection

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of…

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Caustical adjective · 78% connection

Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

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Clinker noun · 78% connection

Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejecte…

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Coal tar noun · 78% connection

a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds

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