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NWA METEORITE THIN SECTION (#F2463)

$ 21.09

Availability: 24 in stock
  • Condition: New

    Description

    Note that the number in brackets in the auction title is simply our personal inventory number for this auction.
    NOTE: I had this thin section made more than twenty years ago and its been sitting around in a box all that time. After a bunch of moves (Including twice moving countries) I have lost the information on some of them. As a result I am selling this as an unclassified NWA. It might have gotten classified and named or be something special but I dont remember what it was. But it was cut from a meteorite found in the the Sahara desert. Look over image for more information.
    A thin section is a thin
    slice
    of a rock that is glued to a glass microscope
    slide. There are standard thicknesses but the thickness most commonly used for meteorites is 30 microns in thickness (Like this one)  - thin enough that you can see through it. It often brings out nice chondrules and/or other features of the meteorite.
    This is a standard size microscope slide which is roughly 4.5 x 2.5cm.
    Combining lots to save on postage would be fine.