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Cadmium: mode of occurrence in Illinois coal

Journal Article · · Science; (United States)
Portions of twenty-three representative samples of either face channel or drill cores of Illinois coal seams were ashed using high- and low-temperature procedures, then treated with the acid-digestion bomb technique for cadmium and zinc determinations by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. These results were compared to cadmium determinations done on selected ashed samples by anodic stripping voltammetry and neutron activation analysis. Sphalerite samples obtained from a high specific gravity fraction of a low temperature ash and an unashed coal sample were digested by nitric acid and analyzed for cadmium and zinc concentrations by atomic absorption. Results of analysis were: cadmium content ranged from 0.3 to 28 ppM and zinc content ranged from 18 to 300 ppM in ashed samples; zinc: cadmium rations in sphalerite samples suggest that most, if not all, of the cadmium in the coal is within sphalerite.
OSTI ID:
6652999
Journal Information:
Science; (United States), Journal Name: Science; (United States) Vol. 181; ISSN SCIEA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English