Matter
- Name
- Mg-Fe-silicate glass with pyroxene stoichiometry, Fe content 0.05
- Family
- solid
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Level
- local matter
- Origins
- laboratory
- Provider
- Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory Jena
- Local reference code
- STW 12
- Preparation
- selected components
- Method
- selection of homogeneous glassy parts under microscope inspection
- Phase type
- solid
- Texture
- compact glassy
- Type of porosity
- without pores
- Density
- 2.74 $\pm$ 0.03 $g.cm^{-3}$
- Grain density
- 2.74 $\pm$ 0.03 $g.cm^{-3}$
- Oxides
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Formula $MgO$ $FeO$ $SiO_{2}$ Mass fraction (%) 0.396 0.049 0.555
- Title
- Melting and quenching by copper rollers
- Matter
- Mg-Fe-silicate glass with pyroxene stoichiometry, Fe content 0.05 (this matter)
- Processing steps
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Step Date Type Process Changes #1 mixing magnesium carbonate, ferrous oxalate, and silicon dioxide are mixed in appropriate portions #2 thermal filled in platinum crucible, slowly heated by a resistance furnace to 1917 K, maintained for 1 hour #3 thermal quenched to room temperature by contact with rotating copper rollers