“…A number of authors have fractionated soluble coal derivatives by pre parative gel permeation chromatography and then determined number average molecular weights of the fractions by vapor phase osmometry (Sternberg et al, 1971;Sun and Burk, 1975;Ignasiak and Gawlak, 1977;Larsen and Choudhury, 1979;Larsen et al, 1981;Schanne and Haenel, 1981). Examples of the results were shown in Fig.…”