ISOGEOCHEM Archives

Stable Isotope Geochemistry

ISOGEOCHEM@LIST.UVM.EDU
Options: Use Classic View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Condense Mail Headers

Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
TO: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:36:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Furnace for D/H extractions
From: "James R. O'Neil" <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from gimantis.rs.itd.umich.edu (gimantis.rs.itd.umich.edu [141.211.83.25]) by list.uvm.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id PAA13566 for <[log in to unmask]>; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:32:21 -0500 (EST) from j.imap.itd.umich.edu by gimantis.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.7.5/2.2) id PAA01286; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:36:44 -0500 (EST)
X-Sender: [log in to unmask]
X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments: text/plain (20 lines) 
Alan-

1200 degrees is not hot enough for some minerals including muscovite. With
the sole object of removing all the OH hydrogen from the mineral (a
treatment that is hot enough and long enough - whatever it takes), I
wouldn't think that a controlled furnace is that important an advantage, if
any advantage at all.  You can follow the decomposition progress with
readings on the vacuum gauge.

Cheers,

Jim

James R. O'Neil
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1063
Fax: (313) 763-4690

ATOM RSS1 RSS2