TA2 Facility 3 – NHM Petrology, Mineralogy and Chemistry Facility
Average visit: 5 days
The Petrology, Mineralogy and Chemistry Facility (PMCF) at the Natural History Museum (NHM) offers an array of state-of-the-art instruments optimised to analyse the mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry of extraterrestrial materials and their analogues.
Instruments available include:
- Scanning electron microscopes (SEM), including with Bruker Flat Quad 5060F energy dispersive X-ray detector and cathodoluminescence capability
- Field Emission Electron Microprobe analyser (EMPA)
- Laser ablation ICP-MSComputed Tomography (CT)
- X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
- We can also offer access to our meteorite collection as well as advice on curation of meteorites, returned samples and their analogues.
Further information on individual instruments.
Contact:
Sara Russell, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK. sarr@nhm.ac.uk
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