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Crelling's Petrographic Atlas of Coals and Carbons

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FA71

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Frame ID: FA 71

Sample ID: slide 284-33

Magnification: 330 microns on long side

Illuminator: Vertical

Objective: 32x oil

Polarizer: Out

Analyzer: Out

Retarder Plate: Out

Filter:

Important Features: Spinel

Spinel.  Three spinel-rich spheres showing contrasting textures.  Interstitial space within spinel-rich spheres is generally glass.  From power plant burning low- to medium-sulfur, high volatile bituminous Central Appalachian coal.