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MICRINITE [5 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2012-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Classification of Coal
  • Solid Fossil Fuels
DEF

[A] coal [which] consists of more than 50 percent of an accumulation of very fine, virtually structureless, fragments of tissue more or less fusinized which appear in transmitted light as a semitranslucent or opaque micrinite groundmass.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Classification des charbons
  • Combustibles fossiles solides
DEF

Charbon constitué pour plus de 50 % d'une accumulation de petits lambeaux de tissus à peine structurés, plus ou moins fusinitisés, dans une masse fondamentale de micrinite semi-transparente ou opaque en lumière transmise.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Solid Fossil Fuels
  • Petrography
DEF

[A] type of coal [which] consists of more than 50 percent of material(micrinite) which is opaque or only semi-translucent in transmitted light.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Combustibles fossiles solides
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Charbon formé de plus de 50 % de micrinite, une substance opaque et semi-opaque en lumière transmise.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
OBS

This term was proposed to simplify the nomenclature of coal petrography by combining, in a single term, the group of the following macerals :micrinite, semifusinite, fusinite, sclerotinite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Groupe macéral du charbon relativement inerte durant le processus de cokéfaction [et qui] comprend la fusinite, la semifusinite, la micrinite, la macrinite, la sclérotinite.

OBS

Par souci de simplification de la nomenclature pétrographique des charbons, l'on utilise le terme «inertinite» pour désigner l'ensemble des macéraux suivants : micrinite, semifusinite, fusinite, sclérotinite. Les constituants de l'inertinite ne sont pas toujours totalement inertes. Ils sont simplement plus inertes que les macéraux des deux autres groupes, en particulier lors de la cokéfaction, parce qu'ils agissent comme des amaigrissants.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
OBS

All particles of coal, which display a higher reflectivity than the corresponding vitrinite and which cannot be classified as micrinite, macrinite, semifusinite or sclerotinite, are grouped under the term inertodetrinite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
OBS

Ce terme englobe toutes les particules de charbon dont la réflectance dépasse celle de la vitrinite, sans pour autant appartenir à la micrinite, à la macrinite, à la semifusinite ou à la sclérotinite.

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

... a microlithotype composed principally of inertinite in which micrinite is the most abundant form.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Microlithotype composé presque exclusivement d'inertinite à forte teneur en micrinite.

Spanish

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