Description of facilities
We are in the process of setting up our new laboratory facilities at University of Arizona! Stay tuned for more updates.
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'Zircon' room in clean lab
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Acid distillation room in clean lab
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'Trace Metals' room in clean lab
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Sub-boiling stills in clean lab
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Ovens room
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Petrographic and picking scopes
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Sub-boiling acid distillation in clean lab
Loading filaments at MIT for ID-TIMS
Elution curve calibration using Eichrom vacuum box
Dissolving a fragment of Zr metal for a gravimetric solution
Making new columns from heat-shrink Teflon
Building columns for Zr chemistry
Lisa Z. (PhD) doing TODGA column chemistry
Loading zircon in microcapsules for dissolution
Lisa Z. (PhD) flux fusing rock samples
Freshly baked lab magmas (i.e., flux-fused powders)
Leaching new PFA bottles
Cleaning PFA microcapsules for zircon dissolution
Parr acid digestion vessels for high-pressure dissolutions
Single Zr spikes prior to double-spike mixing
Fluxing new PFA beakers for Pb chemistry
Bottle farm!
Making microcolumns for zircon U-Pb chemistry