Lab Tour
 

We have been fully operational and routinely performing 40Ar/39Ar analyses since July of 1999. The image below outlines construction of the lab.

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Germination Phase: Schematic of extraction line

  

Juvenile Phase: Extraction line in August 1998

  

Adult Phase: Extraction line today
         
   

Automated laser sample chamber resting after it's first conversation with the computer through it's GPIB umbilical.

  

Close-up of the extraction line showing the pneumatic valve drivers.

  

Command console for the extraction line showing a video image of the laser tray. Holes in the copper try are approximately 1mm in diameter.