Tom,
I would be very afraid of the olivine cracking (at the least) -- and at
the worst, cracking and crumbling out of the iron, leaving you with a
falling-apart mess sandwiched between two layers of cracked glass. The
glass is likely to crack due to the stress of the heating and cooling too.
Better you should not heat it, but either use the dessicant as suggested in
the article, or perhaps displace the air with a dry, inert gas like
nitrogen, and sealing it in.
That's my 1½ cents (allowing for currency conversion fees depending on where
you are in the world.)
Ed Deckert
IMCA #8911
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Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 11:31 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Slump glass meteorite protection/display
Hi list, A couple weeks ago there was a thread on encasing meteorites in
resin. Also in this months Meteorite Times there was a nicely written
article
Preserving meteorite slices in home-made glass mountings, by Gregory E
Carr
http://www.meteorite-times.com/meteorite_frame.htm
I was wondering if anyone has tried slump glass. This is the process
where
a sandwich of glass with a meteorite slice in the middle is heated to the
point of fusing the outside glass sheets. It would drive out all
moisture
while completely sealing in the sample. Some material would melt at the
same
temperature as the glass but irons and most stonies would not. What
about
Olivine, would the melt point of Olivine be higher than the glass?
Would this work? I have seen some real cool stuff fused into glass this
way.
Tom
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