Abstract
A technique has been developed to show the distribution of readily leachable chlorine in high chlorine coals using silver nitrate as a stain. Acetate peels may be taken of the precipitated silver chloride for closer investigation of the relations between the water-soluble chlorine and the coal lithotypes. High chlorine coals from Yorkshire Main Colliery (Barnsley Seam) and Thoresby Colliery (Top Hard Seam), showed that the durain fraction of coal will rapidly yield at least some of its water-soluble chlorine. However, vitrinite is the major host of water-soluble chlorine and the predominant component of bright coal. Bright coal shows no water-soluble chlorine component. This apparent discrepancy is explained by the size and distribution of pores and the permeability of different coal macerals. The water-soluble chlorine component is believed to be a NaCl solution held within coal pores. Pores found within the dull coal are much larger than those found in bright coal especially where the former has a high detrital mineral matter component. Bedding planes within durain bands which are coated by fossil remains or thin fusain layers are seen to be the major contributory fractions of the dull coal.
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