[meteorite-list] Pallasites and Moist Climates

From: Bill Mason III <bmason3_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:10:08 2004
Message-ID: <000901c30234$c2b1e820$0c02a8c0_at_ce1.client2.attbi.com>

Dear Rex,
    The vacuum is the perfect invironment for a potential ruster....because
there is no air,no moisture,nothing to promote galvanic corrosion. How ever
having to look at your collection in a bell jar is impractical. We now have
emmiters that will keep a atmosphere free of any corrosive invironment. My
new catalog will be out in april.
    Bill Mason

----- Original Message -----
From: "wrecks463" <wrecks463_at_cox.net>
To: <j.divelbiss_at_att.net>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pallasites and Moist Climates


> Has anybody ever tried vacuum sealing a meteorite? The place I work for
does
> some metal work for a place here in Tucson that builds some serious vacuum
> chambers and sells them. Supposedly they can create a vacuum down to like
6
> molecules of oxygen per square foot and then they cover it with a plastic
> coating that is about .002 of an inch thick. I don't know how well this
> would work with something like a rock, I think they usually do it on a
> smooth surface. This is like the covering you might see on brass. Anyway,
if
> anybody is interested I could check it out more. I really don't have a
rust
> problem where I live. I don't use the swamp cooler just a/c so my rocks
stay
> pretty dry. Just a thought.
>
> Rex
>
>
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