Abstract
TIN is used as a coating on steel and on other metals and alloys. When alloyed with other metals, it is an important constituent in soft solders, collapsible tubes, pewter ware, costume jewelry, fusable pressure plugs, bronze and bearing linings. It has a long and varied history of commercial and ornamental uses. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness and creep. It also includes information on low and high temperature performance, and corrosion resistance as well as casting, forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: Sn-5. Producer or source: World tin producers (ingots).
Since the surfactant can form rod-like micelles or even cross-link structures, viscoelastic surfactant (VES) fluid has unique rheological characteristics. The demerits of VES fluids have been proven after being applied as the fracturing fluid for several years. However, the fluid has high fluid loss and a low viscosity at high temperature, which limits the application to hydraulic fracturing. This paper focuses on the VES fluid mixed with nanoparticles which should be an effective way to maintain the viscosity at high temperature and high shear rate. The experiments were based on preparation of uniform and stable nanocolloids, which utilize Microfluidizer high shear fluid processor. Dynamic light scattering and microscopic methods are employed to investigate the stability and micro-structure of the VES fluid. The effects of temperature, shear rate and volume fraction of the nanoparticles on rheology of VES were studied. The SiO2 nanoparticles could significantly improve the rheological performance of VES fluid, although the rheological performance at the temperature over 90 °C needs to be enhanced. The mechanisms of interactions between nanoparticles and micelles are also discussed later in the paper. At the end, the potential of VES fluid mixed with nanoparticles during application in fracturing process was discussed.
The Luna 24 mission sampled a variety of lithologies in a single core. Two of these lithologies, a metabasalt (24196) and a crushed basalt (24170) have been subjected to
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Ar-
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Ar dating experiments to determine if metamorphism significantly post-dated basalt extrusion. The metabasalt exhibited symptoms of both solar wind contamination and
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Ar recoil; in view of these effects an age may only be defined by making extreme assumptions. High temperature release fractions give an age of 3.36 ± 0.11 Ga, while the cumulate
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Ar ratio gives 3.14 ± 0.16 Ga; both are comparable with the basalt (24170) age and suggest that the metabasalts represent thermally penecontemporaneously metamorphosed flow margins, rather than the products of later impact events. The feldspar from the microgabbro yielded an age of 3.37 ± 0.20 Ga. The ratios of cosmogenic
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Ar to Ca in pyroxene and feldspar are within error identical, indicating that
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Ar production from Fe in the pyroxene is small. This is the first definitive use of Fe-produced
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Ar as a spectral hardness indicator and implies that the microgabbro received much of its cosmic ray exposure at depth in the regolith. By taking account of the dependence of
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Ar production rate with depth it is inferred that the microgabbro layer was deposited within the last 350-500 Ma. By implication, the regolith layers above the microgabbro at the Luna 24 site are younger. The metabasalt has an identical cosmogenic
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Ar/Ca ratio; however, because of the decrease of production rate with depth it could have experienced a 20 % pre-exposure before deposition of the microgabbro. Spectral information has also been obtained from a reappraisal of published argon data and indicates a much harder spectrum for a near surface sample. The way in which the Ca- and Fe-produced
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follow the broad trend of the instantaneous production profiles suggests that the regolith at the Luna 24 site has been relatively undisturbed for much of the last 300 Ma.
Crystallography has a long history of providing knowledge and methods for applications in other disciplines. The identification of minerals using X-ray diffraction is one of the most important contributions of crystallography to earth sciences. However, when the crystal itself has been dissolved, replaced or deeply modified during the geological history of the rocks, diffraction information is not available. Instead, the morphology of the crystal cast provides the only crystallographic information on the original mineral phase and the environment of crystal growth. This article reports an investigation of crystal pseudomorphs and crystal casts found in a carbonate-chert facies from the 3.48 Ga-old Dresser Formation (Pilbara Craton, Australia), considered to host some of the oldest remnants of life. A combination of X-ray microtomography, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and crystallographic methods has been used to reveal the original phases of these Archean pseudomorphs. It is found with a high degree of confidence that the original crystals forming in Archean times were hollow aragonite, the high-temperature polymorphs of calcium carbonate, rather than other possible alternatives such as gypsum (CaSO4·2H20) and nahcolite (NaHCO3). The methodology used is described in detail.
A crystallographic study of crystalline casts and pseudomorphs from the 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton (Australia)