Coal analysis
CA 1259708 A · Owner: Cogent Limited · Inventors: Wormald, Malcolm R.
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An analysis system for analysing coal or other material causes the material to be bombarded with neutrons from a source, and this generates gamma rays from the material which are detected by a detector. The detector has scintillators which generate light when a gamma ray is detected, the light being detected by photomultiplies. Each gamma ray generates two other gamma rays which may both be, wholly absorbed in one or the other scintillator or one, absorbed in one scintillator and one in the other. By analysing these events, the spectrum of gamma rays may be obtained, giving the composition of the material. One preferred detector has an array of scintillators and coincident gamma ray …
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- Granted September 19, 1989. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended September 19, 2006.
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