Sample
Name
Sri Lanka Olivine, surface along the crystallographic a-b plane
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 $mbar$
Title
Cutting and polishing of the olivine crystal

Produced sample

Sample
Sri Lanka Olivine, surface along the crystallographic a-b plane (this sample)
Processing steps
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