> Wouldn't the moisture associated with bead blasting cause problems? Most chondrites You can put to water for a shorter moment (seweral minutes) without problem. Especially stable sahara meteorites or weathered stuff like Yours where You can't make it worse. Be aware of doing this with fresh material like Benguerir or rusty crap like Ghubara.
If You must use water, f.e. for cutting or polishing proces, then put wet samples immediatelly to pure alcohol for a short moment and then heat them carefully. If You put them wet to heating place then hot water in meteorite can start killing iron inside before hot air will remove water. It is especially dangerous in porous meteorites. water ---> alcohol ---> heating and everything will be OK 36h before plane to Tucson, ajajajjjjjjjjjj Karrramba -----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]----- http://www.Meteoryt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Gao-Guenie.com GSM +48(607)535 195 --------[ Member of Polish Meteoritical Society ]-------- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
