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LIGNITE (Lat. lignum, wood)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 679 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIGNITE (See also:Lat. lignum, See also:wood) , an imperfectly formed See also:coal, usually brownish in See also:colour, and always showing the structure of the wood from which it was derived (see COAL).

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