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lignite

type of fossil fuel; soft brown combustible sedimentary rock
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lignite

Summary

lignite ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,445 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • lignite is a type of coal[2].
  • lignite's Commons category is recorded as Lignite[3].
  • lignite's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lignite[4].
  • lignite's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[5].
  • lignite's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[6].
  • lignite's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • lignite's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • lignite's partially coincident with is recorded as xyloid lignite[9].
  • lignite's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_2000008[10].

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Definition and Type

lignite is a type of coal[2].

Why It Matters

lignite ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,445 views/month).[1] lignite has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] lignite is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 3450419
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → coal
    Partially coincident with → xyloid lignite
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 13316, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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