Category Archives: Research

#RealTimeChem and Powdering Fossils

Continuing on with #RealTimeChem week (@RealTimeChem on Twitter), here’s something that not too many ‘traditional’ chemists have to do, but geochemists have to do all the time. It’s not very often when you can just stick a rock into an instrument and take a geochemical measurement. Usually, the rock (or fossil, in this case) has to be powdered first.Continue reading “#RealTimeChem and Powdering Fossils”

#RealTimeChem and Preparing Geological Samples for Analysis

It’s #RealTimeChem week (@RealTimeChem on Twitter). To celebrate, I’m going to illustrate both some of the procedures we do in the laboratory and how #RealTimeChem works. I’ll also show how geochemistry, while somewhat different from ‘traditional’ chemistry (geochemists tend to have degrees in geology and not in chemistry, for example), it is still chemistry.Continue reading “#RealTimeChem and Preparing Geological Samples for Analysis”