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Number of Free Radicals in Coal During Carbonization at Different Heating Rates

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DURING carbonization in vacuo at constant heating rates of 1 and 3deg.C./min. we measured the number of free radicals per gram of starting material of a vitrain with a carbon content of 86.9 per cent. This was done by means of an electron spin resonance spectrometer working at 9,000 Mc./s. The results are given in Fig. 1.

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SMIDT, J., VAN KKEVELEN, D. Number of Free Radicals in Coal During Carbonization at Different Heating Rates. Nature 184, 719–720 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184719b0

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