- Database
- Experimentalists
- Date
- 2011-01-01
- Provider
- We are grateful to Prof. A. Tsuchiyama, Osaka University, for providing the Sri Lanka Olivine.
- Body name
- Earth
- Place
- Ratnapura District , Sabaragamuwa Province , Sri Lanka
- Thickness
- 0.3 $mm$
- Diameter
- 4.0 $mm$
- Surface roughness
- polished
- Comments
- sample dimensions are about 4x6x0.3 mm; sample preparation described in Zeidler et al. (2011), surface along a-b plane corresponds to y-z plane in Zeidler et al. (2011), surface is not perfectly oriented in y-z-plane, surface normal inclined by 20° to the x-axis.
- Temperature
- 300.0 $\pm$ 5.0 $K$
- Temperature max
- 300.0 $K$
- 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
- Sri Lanka Olivine, surface along the crystallographic a-b 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-b plane #2 during layer formation 2011-01-01 mechanical polishing of the olivine sample surface with diamond paste of 0.25 µm fineness