Measurement of reflectance of coal macerals: its ...
A total of 225 coal samples and 106 printouts of coal analyses were provided on request to the coal research community. The relationship between reflectance and coal rank was evaluated using 885 coals from the Penn State Coal Data Base. Reflectance distributions showed that coals of medium volatile bituminous rank and higher could be discriminated using mean maximum reflectance. A set of 21