by Heather Coit
Illinois Geological Survey scientist Latif Khan, center, talks about his system for cleaning and making a marketable product of coal scraps, while fellow researchers, from left to right, Chris Manrique, Don Eblin, William Roy and Murthy Khandrika stand behind him at the Geological Survey Lab in Champaign.
It's about scrap, and scrap coal at that, but technology developed by Illinois State Geological Survey and University of Illinois researchers is making Mark Kaczor late for dinner nonetheless.
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