Department of Mineralogy

 

Infrastructure
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Clean air chemical laboratory

Thermal Ionization mass spectrometry – TRITON

Thermal Ionization mass spectrometry – MAT262

Noble Gas mass spectrometry – ARGUS

Noble Gas mass spectrometry – NOBLESSE

Fission Track dating laboratory

Raman microspectrometry laboratory

Fluid inclusion microthermometry laboratory

Particle characterization laboratory

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics laboratory

X-ray diffractometry

Thin and polished sectioning laboratory

XRF preparation

Mineral separation facilities

ICP-MS

UNIL

 

ICP-MS

A new ICP-MS center is in construction at the faculty of science af University of Geneva. It will be situated in the Sciences Mass Spectrometry platform:
          http://www.unige.ch/sciences/sms/index.html
and will host a Agilent quadrupole ICP-MS and a Neptune Thermo Scientific multicollector ICP-MS for stable and radiogenic isotope research.

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