Matter
- Name
- Synthetic Ysson Basaltic Glass Bulk
- Family
- solid
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Parent matter
- Basalt Ysson bulk
- Level
- from laboratory repository
- Origins
- laboratory
- Provider
- Patrick Pinet, Serge Chevrel, IRAP, OMP, 14 avenue E Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
- Place
- based on original matter from natural Pic d'Ysson basalt, Massif Central, département du Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France
- Method
- controlled melt of sieved natural Pic d’Ysson basalt (size < 125 µm)
- Phase type
- solid
- Comments
- amorphous solid block produced by artificial melting from grinded sieved (size < 125 µm) Pic d'Ysson natural basalt
- Shape
- smooth blocks
- Texture
- compact glassy
- Type of porosity
- without pores
- Porosity
- 0.0e+00
- Grain compacity
- 1.0
- Oxides
-
Formula $SiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $Fe_{2}O_{3}$ $MnO$ $MgO$ $CaO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ $TiO_{2}$ $P_{2}O_{5}$ Mass fraction (%) 43.99 12.23 12.07 0.18 13.68 9.7 3.16 1.39 2.43 0.65 - Oxides comments
- Sum of oxides is 99.48%, LOI is 1%, composition very close to original basalt
- Title
- Controlled melting of natural Pic d’Ysson basalt and quenching to produce more than 95% amorphous glass
- Matters
- Matter
- Synthetic Ysson Basaltic Glass Bulk (this matter)
- Processing steps
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Step Date Type Process Changes #1 2009-02-05 mechanical mechanical grinding of bulk basalt #2 2009-02-05 mechanical sieving by 2 stainless steel sieves with 45 and 125 microns meshs #3 2009-02-05 thermal controlled melting: 1400°C - 1 hour - 1 atm #4 2009-02-05 thermal controlled quenching: cooling by flowing on a metal plate - 1 atm - speed about 20 °C/s - Comments
- Controlled melting of natural Pic d’Ysson basalt and quenching to produce more than 95% amorphous glass