Vitrain
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Vitrain is a noun meaning A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable material.
Meaning
A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable material.
Example Sentences
The caking behaviour of vitrain and clarain could be improved after the coal has been picked out.
Thus, it may be concluded that a lower viscosity of plastic vitrain grains facilitates pores to grow and coalesce and grains to stick to one another to create intergrain pores.
In order to measure relatively accurately the activation energy of coal, and to exclude the disturbance from coal samples, the hand-picked banded vitrains in bright coal are adopted as experimental samples (Table 1).
Word Forms
- vitrains
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vitrinite, vitusite, clarain, bind, bituminous, huminite.
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