- Database
- Experimentalists
- Date
- 1994-01-01
- Provider
- Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory Jena
- Body name
- Earth
- Place
- unknown , unknown
- Surface roughness
- polished
- Substrate material
- epoxy resin (epofix)
- Substrate comments
- sample rear side embedded in resin (25mm diam.) for handling during polishing and measurement
- Temperature
- 300.0 5.0
- Temperature max
- 300.0
- Type
- ambient air
- Fluid temperature
- 300.0
- Fluid pressure
- 1000.0
- Title
- Cutting, embedding and polishing of natural enstatite crystal
- Sample
- Enstatite crystal, surface perpendicular to the c-axis (this sample)
- Processing steps
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Step Chronology Date Type Process Changes #1 during layer formation mechanical cutting the enstatite crystal perpendicular to c-axis (along the (001) crystallographic plane) #2 after layer formation mechanical embedding the enstatite crystal in epoxide resin and polishing