How to Use brown coal in a Sentence

brown coal

noun
  • Black or brown hydrogen uses black coal or lignite (brown coal) in the hydrogen-making process.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The share in the electricity mix of brown coal (lignite), the cheapest and dirtiest sort, has remained stable for two decades.
    — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Everything changed after the discovery of the brown coal, in the late 18th century.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2022
  • This could abate greenhouse gases produced elsewhere, such as from Germany’s heavily polluting brown coal plants.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Remarkably, this trend is even sweeping up brown coal, or lignite, a cheap-and-dirty variety that’s been seen as more resilient than Germany’s costlier black coal.
    — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The plant produces 20 percent of Poland’s electricity, but does so by burning an especially dirty form of coal known as lignite or brown coal.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Some regions, particularly in the less prosperous east, are heavily dependent on mining lignite, or brown coal.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The liquid hydrogen will be produced in Latrobe Valley, Victoria through a brown coal gasification process.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, has the world's fifth largest reserve of brown coal, considered the dirtiest fossil fuel.
    — Valerie Plesch, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2018

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