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CT: Biomass is matter usually thought of as garbage. Some of it is just stuff lying around -dead trees, tree branches, yard clippings, left-over crops, wood chips (like in the picture to the right), and bark and sawdust from lumber mills. It can even include used tires and livestock manure.
Your trash, paper products that can’t be recycled into other paper products, and other household waste are normally sent to the dump. Your trash contains some types of biomass that can be reused. Recycling biomass for fuel and other uses cuts down on the need for “landfills” to hold garbage.

S: http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter10.html (last access: 22 February 2015)

N: 1. c.1200, feuel, feul “fuel, material for burning,” also figurative, from Old French foaille “fuel for heating,” from Medieval Latin legal term focalia “right to demand material for making fire, right of cutting fuel,” from classical Latin focalia “brushwood for fuel,” from neuter plural of Latin focalis “pertaining to a hearth,” from focus “hearth, fireplace” (see focus (n.)). Figurative use from 1570s. Of food, as fuel for the body, 1876. As “combustible liquid for an internal combustion engine” from 1886. A French derivative is fouailler “woodyard.” Fuel-oil is from 1882.

2. A substance requiring oxidation for the release of its energy. French equivalent: carburant.

A material such as wood, coal, gas, or oil burned to produce heat or power. French equivalent: combustible.

3. fuel: term standardized by the British Standards Institution.

4. The term combustible in Spanish and French can be translated into English as “fuel” if we are using it as a noun and “combustible” if we are using it as an adjective.

5. Combustion Engines / Internal Combustion Engines: motor fuel, fuel.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=fuel&searchmode=none (last access: 22 February 2015). 2 & 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://bit.ly/2GlQhmh (last access: 16 December 2018). 4. MW – https://bit.ly/2UJfWs9 (last access: 15 December 2018); FCB. 5. IATE – https://iate.europa.eu/search/result/1688286697645/1 (last access: 2 July 2023); FCB.

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CR: biomass fuel, fossil fuel, fuel cell, hybrid car, manure, unburned fuel.