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Re: Keeping meteorites away from moisture

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Subject: Re: Keeping meteorites away from moisture
From: Doran <u12971@snet.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:06:54 -0500
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Maison de l'Astronomie P.L. Inc. wrote:
> 
> Hi to all of you,
> 
> Their's been a lot of messages about preserving meteorites and I know at one
> time, somebody mentionned a distributor for dessicant. Can anybody contact
> me with their telephone number cause I deleted the original message by mistake.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Gaetan Cormier
> http://www.microid.com/meteorites.htm
> e-mail: rlotte@interlink.net

Gaetan,

W. A. Hammond Drierite Company LTD
Xenia, Ohio 45385
937-376-2927

I spoke with Hammond earlier this week and they informed me that there
is not a problem with the indicator variety corroding metals (contains
3% CoCl2) unless it gets wet. They suggested that if I wanted to be
ultra safe to use the 100% CaSO4 variety with a few of the indicator
granules to show when the desiccant was exhausted.  Al Mitterling
proposed this same idea earlier this week.

Ron Fiedler

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Keeping meteorites away from moisture

From: "Maison de l'Astronomie P.L. Inc." <rlotte@InterLink.net>

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