[meteorite-list] Meteorite Classification Question - Instruments

2012-01-14 Thread Carl Agee
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Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Classification Question - Instruments

2012-01-14 Thread Mark Grossman
@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:30 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Classification Question - Instruments Hi Robert, The electron microprobe is the instrument of choice for quantitative analyses of major elements of silicate minerals like olivine. SEM is great for qualitative

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Classification Question - Instruments

2012-01-13 Thread Robert Beauford
As I recall, there are several people on the list that actively classify meteorites, so I'm hoping one of you will be patient with a question that may be profoundly ignorant. I have access, in house, to a FEI Nova Nanolab 200 Dual-Beam Focused Ion Beam or a PHI VersaProbe XPS instrument, (along