Searching the evidence for the intercalation of bromine in high-rank coal

✍ Scribed by D.D.L. Chung; C.G. Woychik

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 516 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-2361
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-2361(87)90127-x

✦ Synopsis

Similar to graphite, meta-anthracite absorbs bromine at room temperature to a concentration close to that of stage-2 graphite-bromine.

Subsequent desorption at room temperature was incomplete, indicating that 88 "/, of the bromine was loosely held and 12% was relatively strongly held in the muta-anthracite.

The rate of bromine absorption and the amount and rate of bromine desorption were greater for metu-anthracite than for graphite. X-Ray diffraction, electron diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry showed the absence of intralayer or interlayer intercalate ordering in brominated meta-anthracite after desorption, hence yielding no evidence for intercalation.