[meteorite-list] What to do with meteorite dust

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Oct 18 23:14:17 2006
Message-ID: <20061019031415.95310.qmail_at_web36902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Dave -

So what you're telling Tracy is that those little
plasic bullion trays are going to yellow? That's sad,
as the plastic would be safer than glass for the
children. It would also be easier to permanently
stick
the labels on them. Oh well -

Wouldn't glass slide mounts be better for Tracy's
super thin sections? It would seem to me that for
serious study thin sections might be more useful than
larger thicker slices - what is good, about half a
chrondule thickness? How do you get them so thin?

good hunting,
Ed









 



--- Dave Freeman mjwy <dfreeman_at_fascination.com>
wrote:

> Dear Tracy, List;
> I have went through a few hundred nice yellow
> polyurethane specimen
> casts that were once clear back in the 60's and
> 70's. Now the yellow
> casts have nice specimens in them and are totally
> useless except for
> filling up land fills. I would be very skeptical
> of putting anything
> of value in most casting materials. Plastic is
> great for cars and
> fashion ware but not with my meteorites (or even my
> saw dust).
> Dave F.
>
> tracy latimer wrote:
>
> > For those people who deplore cutting up meteorites
> (even the NWA XXX
> > relatively common ones) and using them for
> sculptures, knife handles,
> > etc...
> >
> > If you have a quantity of mixed meteoric dust, why
> not mix it with
> > resin and make a solid block of
> meteorite-dust-impregnated plastic?
> > Something like that would still have the cachet of
> meteorite, but be
> > much less of a loss to science, and you could
> still carve it, form it,
> > create all kinds of neato stuff. There is a RPG
> game supplier who
> > offers carved meteorite dice at $100 each. I'd
> much rather pay $10
> > for one cast out of dust and plastic.
> >
> > Tracy Latimer
> >
> >
>
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