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The last of the brown coal exited that pit in 1997.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024
Hazelwood was erected to burn brown coal from an adjacent open-pit mine.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
The five chunks of brown coal, each no bigger than a matchbox, add further evidence of the port’s antiquity.
—J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
The regional power supplier, RWE, had already bought the land from farmers to expand its mining for brown coal, which the protesters pointed out is an especially polluting fuel.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
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First Known Use
1805, in the meaning defined above
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“Brown coal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brown%20coal. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
brown coal
noun
: lignite
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