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Lignite is a soft, brownish fuel, a young kind of coal. It still remembers being wood — you can sometimes see a plant shape in it — which is why the name comes from the Latin for firewood. People burn it for heat and for electricity. It is wetter and dirtier than hard black coal, and it does not travel well, so it is usually burned near the mine. It sits between peat (almost still plant) and the harder coals. Taiwan students rarely meet the rock itself; they meet the word in geography or in news about power stations.
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組成From French lignite, from Latin lignum (“firewood”) + -ite (the ending used for rocks and minerals).
同家族的字
- ligninthe stuff that makes wood stiff; same Latin lignum, “wood”
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Lignitename
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A ghost town in California.
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A city and town in North Dakota.
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A ghost town in Virginia.
lignitenoun/ˈlɪɡnaɪ̯t/
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A low-grade, brownish-black coal.
- Texas industry is turning to lignite, a kind of poor man's coal, to replace its dwindling allocations of natural gas. The Lone Star State now gets an estimated 12 percent of its electricity from lignite, and that figure is expected to double by 1985.
- [Robert] Habeck, who has found himself in the extremely uncomfortable position of turning from a long-term campaigner against fossil fuels to a short-term defender of them, said: “Putin’s war of aggression is forcing us to temporarily make greater use of lignite so that we save gas in electricity generation. This is painful but necessary in view of the shortage of gas.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。