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Crelling's Petrographic Atlas of Coals and Carbons

College of Science

FA57

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Frame ID: FA 57

Sample ID: 92537 (slide 378-21)

Magnification: 270 microns on long side

Illuminator: Vertical

Objective: 50x oil

Polarizer: Out

Analyzer: Out

Retarder Plate: Out

Filter:

Important Features:  Glassy edge of particle

Vitrified outer boundary of particle.  The interior has been thermally altered, note high reflectance carbons.  From Kentucky power plant burning medium-sulfur, high volatile A bituminous Eastern Kentucky coal.