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The Chemical Analysis of Argonne Premium Coal Samples

Edited by Curtis A. Palmer
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2144


Determination of 25 Elements in Coal Ash from 8 Argonne Premium Coal Samples by Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry

By Paul H. Briggs

Table 5. Concentrations of Na2O (in weight percent) and trace elements (in parts per million) in two coal reference materials ashed and then digested by acid decmposition.

[USGS, U.S. Geological Survey; ICAP-AES, inductively coupled argon plasma-atomic emission spectrometry; NIST, Nation Institue of Standards and Technology, formerly the National Bureau of Standards]

USGS CLB-1 NIST 1632a
  This study, ICAP-AES J.S. Kane (USGS, unpub. data, 1990)1,2 This study, ICAP-AES Gladney and others (1984)1,2
Na2O (%) 0.28 0.31 0.48 0.48
Be (ppm) 14 16 5 6
Co (ppm) 91 87 29 27
Cr (ppm) 130 130 150 150
Cu (ppm) 140 140 68 70
Li (ppm) 85 110 130 150
Mn (ppm) 110 120 120 130
Ni (ppm) 250 250 79 85
Sc (ppm) 27 25 27 27
Sr (ppm) 880 930 370 380
Th (ppm) 20 18 20 19
V (ppm) 160 160 180 190
Y (ppm) 64 58 34 34
Zn (ppm) 660 660 120 120
% ash 7.8   23.5  

1Reported on a whole-coal basis and converted to an ash basis for comparison.
2Compilation of data obtained by various methods.

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