Howard: I have seen this in a few pallasites recently and it is can be unsightly. It is a resin that is used to keep the thin slices from falling apart. Also, I had some Seymchan recently cut (by a very well-known person) and noticed he used some lacquer to hold together the crusted surface of the piece where the olivine would come off. I thought it was pretty ugly and removed the lacquer. Would rather have a missing crystal than a blob of lacquer! Yuck.
Matt Morgan Mile High Meteorites doctor death wrote: > I've recenly bought a 14 gram Fukang on ebay. While it wasn't apparrent in > the photos, when I received it I noticed on one edge of the slice a yellow > crystal fragment seemed floating separated a few mm by a clear matrix . I > suspect that this was material used to stablitize this pallasite in > preparation, although it looks more like glass than epoxy. Could this > posibly be melt, or were most of these slices being prepared using some > hardener to aid cutting. > > Howard Wu > > _________________________________________________________________ > Refi Now: Rates near 39yr lows! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,399/mo - Calculate > new payment > http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-17727&moid=7581 > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > -- =============== Matt Morgan Mile High Meteorites P.O. Box 151293 Lakewood, CO 80215 USA http://www.mhmeteorites.com ebay id: mhmeteorites ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
