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Lignite
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(Lat. lignum, wood), an imperfectly formed coal, usually brownish in colour, and always showing the structure of the wood from which it was derived (see Coal).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Lignite'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/lignite.html. 1910.