Matter
- Name
- MGS-1 Mars global simulant (10-20 µm size fraction)
- Family
- mineral
- Comments
- The dry sieving of the original matter is also expected to fractionate and alter the bulk mineralogical and elemental composition as the different individual components have different original size distributions.
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Level
- from laboratory repository
- Origins
- laboratory
- Provider
- CLASS Exolith Lab, University of Central Florida
- Preparation
- raw
- Storage condition
- in closed plastic bags
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- mineral (non-silicate mineral), mineral (silicate mineral)
- Shape
- loose powder
- Texture
- loose granular
- Type of porosity
- open pores
- Density
- 1.29 $g.cm^{-3}$
- Grain density
- 2.9351 $\pm$ 0.0036 $g.cm^{-3}$
- Grain sizes
-
Grains Size min Size max Size median Size width Size mass fraction Grain shape #1 10.0 ${\mu}m$ 20.0 ${\mu}m$ 1.0 irregular - Size method
- Dry sieving using a Varisifter VS1000 sonic separator (Advantech)
- Oxides
-
Formula $SiO_{2}$ $TiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $FeO$ $MnO$ $MgO$ $CaO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ $P_{2}O_{5}$ Mass fraction (%) 42.9 0.6 12.8 11.2 0.1 14.6 1.5 0.6 0.1 0.1 - Oxides comments
- LOI: 5.3; Total 97.1
- Number
- 11
- Mode of mixing
- homogeneous mixing
- Materials
- Title
- Sieving
- Matters
- Matter
- MGS-1 Mars global simulant (10-20 µm size fraction) (this matter)
- Processing steps
-
Step Date Type Process Changes #1 2020-09-03 mechanical sieving The dry sieving of the original matter is also expected to fractionate and alter the bulk mineralogical and elemental composition as the different individual components have different original size distributions.