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coal samples from the American Coal Foundation — minus any substantive discussion, let alone mention of climate change.
Doughty gathered
coal samples from mines throughout the U.S.. By measuring the coal elemental concentrations, he found elements needed by plants, like phosphorus, were more abundant and much better distributed during the era of the dinosaurs than the Carboniferous.
Not exact matches
The Virginia Tech team sought out
coal - ash
samples from states including Virginia and Illinois, and
from as far away as China.
A team of scientists and Ph.D's, known as the Rate Group, gathered fossilized wood
samples (some specimens previously aged at 250 million years) and
coal, from the Department of Energy Coal Sample B
coal,
from the Department of Energy
Coal Sample B
Coal Sample Bank.
The team was able to derive new emissions factors based on data
from Chinese government programs that analyzed nearly 5000
coal samples taken throughout the country.
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
sampled deep methane gas
from an exploratory
coal bed methane field in central Scotland and disused
coal mines in central England.
A third round of tests on water and sediment
samples collected in lakes and rivers downstream
from coal ash ponds in North Carolina yielded further confirmation.
The tracers clearly showed that the fingerprints of boron and strontium in these
samples matched the unique composition of
coal ash and were different
from those in
samples from lakes and rivers unaffected by
coal ash contamination.
Analysis of
samples from the outcrop convinced the researchers that the «
coal» was in fact a fossilized oil seep dating to the late Paleocene / early Eocene.
Her
samples come
from coal mines in many parts of the world; much of the recent work has been done in the Donets Basin, in the Ukraine.
Makayla Urias, 8,
from Pike County, Kentucky holds contaminated water
samples taken
from her home which is surrounded by mountaintop removal
coal mining.
Results of tests conducted by Greenpeace in 2005
from ash
samples taken
from the Naga and Toledo
coal - fired power plants in Cebu revealed the insidious presence of mercury, which is a deadly neurotoxin; arsenic, which is a known carcinogen; as well as other hazardous substances such as lead and chromium.
The (arithmetic) average emission factors obtained
from the individual
samples (assuming complete combustion)(Table FE4)(10) confirm the long - recognized finding that anthracite emits the largest amount of carbon dioxide per million Btu, followed by lignite, subbituminous
coal, and bituminous
coal.
From the more than 60,000
coal samples in the File, 5,426 were identified as containing data on heat value and the ultimate analysis (6) needed for developing the relationship between carbon and heat content of the
coal, that is, the carbon dioxide emission factors.