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General EPMA => EPMA Sample Preparation => Topic started by: AnneF on September 19, 2018, 01:10:15 PM
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Hello!
I'm preparing to make an epoxy mount of really porous, fragile pumice fragments and I was wondering if any of you have advice on the best methods to go about it. The last time I tried this, I made a normal epoxy grain mount and then tried to fill in the voids on the exposed pumice with a layer of epoxy under a vacuum, which worked well enough to get data. Is there another method you know of that might work better from the start?
Thanks!
-Anne
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Hi Anne,
Sounds a good method!
They have various sample prep methods on the Univeristy of Edinburgh Ion Probe website
https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/facilities/ionprobe/technical/examples-of-sample-preparations (https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/facilities/ionprobe/technical/examples-of-sample-preparations)
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https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/facilities/ionprobe/technical/prep (https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/facilities/ionprobe/technical/prep)
Ben