Lignitic vs. Lignite: What's the Difference?

A soft, brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetable matter has proceeded further than in peat but not as far as in bituminous coal. Also called brown coal.

A soft, brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetable matter has proceeded further than in peat but not as far as in bituminous coal. Also called brown coal.

Containing or resembling lignite.

A low-grade, brownish-black coal.

Containing lignite; resembling, or of the nature of, lignite; as, lignitic clay.

Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.

Intermediate between peat and bituminous coal