- Database
- Experimentalists
- Date
- 2003-01-01
- Provider
- Dr. Vera Hammer, Museum of Natural History, Vienna
- Body name
- Earth
- Place
- Virgen , Eastern Tyrol , Austria
- Surface roughness
- polished
- Substrate material
- epoxy resin
- Substrate comments
- sample rear side embedded in resin (25mm diam.) for handling during polishing and measurement
- 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, embedding and polishing of the natural brookite crystal
- Materials
- Sample
- Brookite crystal, surface parallel to the crystallographic b-axis (this sample)
- Processing steps
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Step Chronology Date Type Process Changes #1 during layer formation mechanical embedding the brookite crystal and cutting along the crystallographic b-axis #2 after layer formation mechanical polishing of the embedded brookite crystal