Unloading ARGUS VI from Wooden Crate
Here the Thermo field engineer unloads the ARGUS VI from its wooden shipping crate.
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Delivery ARGUS VI on 28 December 2011
Delivery of the ARGUS VI on 28 December 2011 by truck from Portland International Airport after being air freighted from Bremen, Germany. Typical Oregon rainy winter day!
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Typical resulting loaded sample tray after analyses and incremental heating of the samples until total fusion, which melts the geological materials and minerals into small glass beads.
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Typical sample tray before analyses using a CO2 laser. Three wells are filled with biotite mineral separates (blackish materials in the upper two wells and the bottom-right well), with plagioclase feldspar mineral separates (three wells in the lower left corner filled with whitish materials) and with basalt groundmass samples (four large wells and one small well).
read moreSample Tray Loaded in Sample Chamber
Sample are loaded in an Cu planchette or sample tray that is then loaded in a sample chamber with a ZnS window and under ultra-high vacuum. This particular sample tray contains basaltic groundmass samples and plagioclase mineral separates from Samoa dredged in 2005.
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