The reporter has collected as many kinds of coals as possible from all over the world, and has studied them statisticaly so as to get the useful data about thelassification of coals, their constitution and their coalfification processes. In this first report, the reporter, having serected the analytical values specially of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen content, is to conclude or to deduce in respect of the relation among them as follows:
(I) Each group of coals assorted according to thier mining localities and their geological conditions has its own H/C-O/C coal band, but the point of refraction is clearly seen when 1/100 is in the vicinity of 5 to 7, without exception.
(II) In contrast to carboniferous coal, the tertiary coal in Japan is rather highly hydrogenous, whereas the reverse is the case with the Jurassic coal in the mainland China.However, these are not always controlled by the geological age to which their beds belong, for the coal band of the tertiary coal along the west coast of North America is in accord with that of the carboniferous coal in the low oxygen part.
(III) If the dispersien range of the analyticl values of each coalfield is encircled, the upper part of the circle, forming almost like a normal line (Bold line in Fig. 13), faces a certain point in the upper right hand of the line graph in many cases.
(IV) Though van Krevelen's report shows that the maximum value of H/C is on a certain point (the refraction point) in the coal band (O/C-H/C), it has no special significance.As van Krevelen failed to collect such Kinds of coals as have a little higher values of O/C, only the upper part of the circle as mentioned above (III) happened to prove the maximum of the coal band. In the other groups of coals, the maximum points of H/C slip off. And, if the analytical values in respect of O/C are universally collected, the maximum point never appears in the graph.
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