Rob & all, As others have suggested, the first challenge is getting a tektite to melt at all, but if you do succeed, the resulting product will cool pretty much as it was. On our website (http://TektiteSource.com) is a page entitled "Is my unknown a tektite?". There you will find a couple of photos supplied by James Tobin, showing a melted Arizonaite and a Thailandite. The latter has a hint of color, but I think that's purely a photographic artifact.
Cheers, Norm Lehrman --- "Matson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an unusual question for the group: what > happens to a tektite > when you heat it up to its melting point and then > let it cool back > down? Aside from any plastic changes in the shape, > are there any > color effects? I wouldn't have thought so, but I've > been told of > cases of "heat-treating" tektites to drastically > alter their color, > and I wondered if it was a bunch of baloney. --Rob > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
