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The "Rock Room" |
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The 'Rock Room' is actually a set of sample preparation rooms where field samples are processed, and thin sections, glass discs and pressed pellets are made. The 'dirty' rooms contain an extensive collection of sieves, rock crushers, diamond-tipped slab and rock saws, a series of grinding wheels, grit plates, polishing wheels, Vibromet vibrating polishers; along with a MicroTrim seven-sample and MicroTec Mark II single-sample thin section machines, a shatterbox assembly, hydraulic rock corer and an hydraulic splitting maul. The 'clean' room in this facility houses a three-sample Claisse Fluxy fluxer for preparation of glass discs, a Carver 12-ton hydraulic press for production of pressed pellets, and muffle furnaces. These rooms are very actively used by both students and faculty for a wide variety of research projects. | ||||
Last updated 7/10 |
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