Matter
- Name
- Glassy silicate (1-x)MgO-xSiO2 x=0.40, powder
- Family
- solid
- Database
- Origins
- laboratory
- Preparation
- raw
- Method
- Glass synthesized by CO2 laser heating and melting (< 5s) of a sintered mixture of oxides having the desired stoichiometry. The oxide mixture is levitated in a controlled Ar gas flow jet (Kalampounias et al; 2009). The resulting glass spheres (~1mm) were ground by hand in an agate mortar until (sub)micronic sizes are reached.
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- mineral (silicate mineral)
- Texture
- pulverulent
- Type of porosity
- particulate