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noun

biomass

plant materials and animal waste used as fuel

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Six example sentences with biomass, each labelled with its topic.

  • The village boiler now burns biomass from sawmill offcuts, cutting its yearly coal order to almost nothing.

    Environment

  • Researchers measured how much heat a kilogram of dried biomass releases compared with the same weight of peat.

    Science

  • Danish farmers earn a second income selling straw as biomass to the power station twenty miles down the road.

    Economics

  • The new boiler burns compressed biomass pellets and feeds itself from a hopper, so nobody shovels anything.

    Technology

  • The minister defended the biomass subsidy in parliament, though critics noted the wood pellets were shipped across an ocean.

    Politics

  • The school's architect tucked a biomass boiler behind the gym, sized to burn the district's own trimmed branches.

    Architecture

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