peat的意思|peat的解释-里氏词典

peat [pi:t]

n. 泥煤, 泥炭色

[化] 泥炭

[医] 泥煤, 泥炭

peat

[ noun ]
partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
<noun.substance>

Peat \Peat\, n. [Cf. {Pet} a fondling.]
A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
[Obs.] --Shak.

Peat \Peat\, n. [Prob. for beat, prop., material used to make
the fire burn better, fr. AS. b?tan to better, mend (a fire),
b?t advantage. See {Better}, {Boot} advantage.]
A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and
fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and
found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations,
where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is
often dried and used for fuel.

{Peat bog}, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in
such places; peat moss.

{Peat moss}.
(a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat.
(b) A fen producing peat.
(c) (Bot.) Moss of the genus {Sphagnum}, which often grows
abundantly in boggy or peaty places.

{Peat reek}, the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the
peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with
peat as fuel. [Scot.]

Better yet, two prospective customers phone to say they are finally ready to deal for face masks and peat moss.
Fire burning underground in a peat bog in Washington state bedeviled firefighters and choked a Seattle suburb with smoke.
These tufts should establish themselves rapidly in moist peat in an open, sunny place.
Among the materials they examined were some forms of peat.
"It looks a lot better than last week," Robbins said after viewing the area, which was cleaned with peat moss and absorbent pads.
Forestation, mechanical cutting of peat turf and drainage are fast eating away the age-old sanctuaries for plants, insects and birds.
The key to mushroom production is rich, black soil blended from decomposed straw, manure, protein and peat moss.
All you can do is contain it," said state police Sgt. Tom Rubesha. "This peat is buried.
They compensated for the shortage of spare parts or new equipment by becoming highly creative and innovative,' he added. Bord na Mona recently contracted the institute to increase the durability and water resistance of the Irish peat briquette.
They finally declined because of shortage of loam of adequate quality and the arrival of pure peat composts.
A 1972 (19 years in wood) was another bourbon wood spirit with an attractive nuttiness; the 1965 (25 years) was sherry again; the 1962 (29 years) was already woody but with a splendid combination of oloroso sherry, licorice and peat.
Of course, it's foliage, not plumage that Wilbir shows off, and he can't strut around because he's a peat sculpture.
Smoke from the peat bog fire at Redmond, Wash., combined with patchy fog, has caused morning commuter traffic problems and road closures, and the stench has choked residents and dairy cows.
Fund managers and insurance companies that control more than 40 per cent of Fisons shares were asked to urge the company to cease peat cutting.
It has remained so. While there seems little evidence that gardeners are moving away from peat composts on any scale, some obviously are uneasy about their ecological effects.
Almost no peat is used in the drying of the malt.
A dense cloud of smoke hung over the city after two dozen fires broke out in peat bogs over an area of 1,730 acres, the official Soviet news agency said.
Most servicemen are housed at Mount Pleasant, a new airfield complex built on a peat bog 35 miles from Stanley, the capital, along a road that (although the islands' best) is only partly tarmac. They are pretty self-sufficient.
Stephen Brennan, a handsome Irish actor, plays Vinnie, a Don Quixote of the peat bog.
Some companies have seen the economic sense in developing alternatives to peat.
Today the shamrock emblem adorns everything from the national airline to bags of peat moss fertilizer.

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