Mines in the area supply lignite or "brown coal" for power. The electric company in the town is owned by the state.

发电主要靠该地区的煤矿提供褐煤，该地区的电力公司属于国家所有。

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The appropriate conditions that the enriched Ge-bearing lignite in Lincang brown into coal ash with oxidizing roasting method was studied.

研究了采用氧化焙烧法将富集临沧含锗褐煤转化成褐煤灰的适宜条件。

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The tax was intended to deliver a decisive blow against lignite or brown coal, the dirtiest fuel around and Germany's main source of electricity.

此举意在给褐煤决定性的一击。 褐煤是这里最不清洁的燃料，也是德国电力的主要来源。

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That's the name for the massive collective that turned brown coal (lignite) into gas.

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Which makes sense, considering that it's the stuff that coal is made of (lignite coal is soft brown coal formed from geologic pressures on forests that died millions of years ago).

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