Our facilities include the following analytical instruments and laboratory equipment:

Säuredestillation system

Clean Room Facilities (new in 2024)

 

Two ultra-trace analytical clean rooms with 7 workstations (laminar flow hoods and hotplates)

  • 5 acid distillation systems: Savillex DST-1000
  • Quartz glass distillation system for HCl purification
  • Dedicated weighing room with: 2 weighing workstations, Sartorius MC5 microbalance, Sartorius CP225D balance, Stemi SV 6 stereomicroscope
  • Oven room equipped with: muffle furnace, drying cabinet, furnace for acid digestion, ultrasonic bath
  • Parr acid digestion system 
Säuredestillation system1
Phoenix

Mass Spectrometry

  • IsotopX Phoenix (installed in 2018)
    Equipped with 9 Faraday cups, 1 Daly detector (photomultiplier), 1 SEM, DG60 filament heating station, and laminar flow hood for sample loading.
Steinsägen from far

Sample Preparation/ Mineral Separation

  • Rock cutting saw (Goliath 450) 
  • Wifley-type shaking table
  • Frantz magnetic separator
  • Exhaust hood for heavy-liquid separation (bromoform and methylene iodide)
  • Binocular microscopes for mineral hand-picking