Our laboratory is located on the third floor of Delehanty Hall; it
is brand new as of Fall 2004. The lab is directed by Paul Bierman with
Jennifer Larsen doing technical work.
The lab has four fully exhausting laminar flow hoods, an acid recapture
system and all the centrifuges
and Teflon wear necessary to separate microgram quantities of Be and Al
from 20-60 g of purified quartz. We do most of our rock
torture and isolation of
a pure
quartz fraction in a mineral separation lab isolated from our clean
sample preparation space.
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In order to make isotopic measurements, we work extensively with collaborators at Lawrence Livermore (CAMS) National Laboratory and at Purdue University (PRIME). Since its inception in late 1993, the lab has housed a technician and three students. We have processed over 500 samples and prepared over 800 targets for analysis.