Gelification of Victorian tertiary soft brown coal wood. I. Relationship between chemical composition and microscopic appearance and variation in the degree of gelification |
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| Authors: | Nigel J Russell |
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| Institution: | CSIRO Division of Fossil Fuels, P.O. Box 136, North Ryde, N.S.W. 2113 Australia |
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| Abstract: | The relationship between chemical composition and microscopic appearance of present-day wood-derived materials and Victorian xylites and gelified soft brown coal woods, Latrobe Valley, Australia, is discussed. The present-day wood-derived material consists of milled wood and lignin and holocellulose fractions prepared from an angiosperm, Eucalyptus regnans and a gymnosperm, Pinus radiata. The xylites and least gelified soft brown coal woods resemble the P. radiata lignin fraction; the latter contains residual cellulose.The atomic H/C ratio was found to be a useful guide to the degree of gelification. Increase in the degree of gelification was accompanied not only by an increase in the total huminite reflectance, but also by an increase in the reflectance of the individual huminite submacerals. The loss of hymotelinite autofluorescence under ultraviolet and blue light excitation with increase in the degree of gelification of Victorian soft brown coal woods was ascribed primarily to the elimination of cellulose and, possibly, modification of the lignin structure of xylite. |
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