Sarafian Holding Sample (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Sarafian Holding Sample

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Each of the tiny rocks in this circular mount is about half of a synthetic mantle sample -- after it has been heated and crushed in the piston-cylinder apparatus, then cut open and polished. Sarafian puts her samples in this mount in order to analyze them for their water content using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS).

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Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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