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Crelling's Petrographic Atlas of Coals and Carbons

College of Science

FA54

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Frame ID: FA 54

Sample ID: 92271 (slide 323-25)

Magnification: 330 microns on long side

Illuminator: Vertical

Objective: 32x oil

Polarizer: Out

Analyzer: Out

Retarder Plate: Out

Filter:

Important Features: glass cenosphere

Glass cenosphere (upper left).  Cenospheres are hollow glassy spheres.  From South Carolina power plant burning Eastern Kentucky low-sulfur, high volatile A bituminous coal.