- Database
- Experimentalists
- Date
- 2011-01-01
- Body name
- Earth
- Place
- San Carlos , Arizona , United States
- Thickness
- 1.4 $mm$
- Diameter
- 5.0 $mm$
- Surface roughness
- polished
- Comments
- diameter >5 mm, thickness 1.4 mm; sample preparation described in Zeidler et al. (2011)
- Temperature
- 300.0 $\pm$ 5.0 $K$
- Temperature max
- 928.0 $K$
- Type
- ambient air
- Fluid temperature
- 300.0 $K$
- Fluid pressure
- 1000.0 $mbar$
- Number
- 1
- Layers
- Title
- Cutting and polishing of the olivine crystal
- Sample
- San Carlos Olivine (C1), surface along the crystallographic a-c plane (this sample)
- Processing steps
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Step Chronology Date Type Process Changes #1 during layer formation 2011-01-01 mechanical Cutting of the olivine crystal along the a-c plane #2 during layer formation 2011-01-01 mechanical polishing of the olivine sample surface with diamond paste of 0.25 µm fineness