ASM INTERNATIONAL and
AWS JOINT MEETING
Dinner and Technical Presentation
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
Silver & Gold: New Insights to Natural Wire Formation
Dayton Section Members & Friends,
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Much more common in silver than in gold, the unusual morphology know as a “wire” can resemble the finest of threads to the strongest of ropes. Although they have adorned the shelves of museum mineral collections for centuries, very little has been known about wire specimens until recently. Are they single crystals or bundles of many fibrous crystals? How do they grow? Some have suggested extrusion. Answers to these questions and discovery of unexpected and yet unexplained compositions have resulted from our work. The study has included some of the finest known examples of wire silver and gold and has utilized some of the world’s most powerful scientific instruments. In this talk I will present the findings of our research on wire growth, texture and isotope fractionation in both natural and synthetic specimens.
Speaker – Dr. John Rakovan is a professor of mineralogy at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
DATE and TIME
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
6:00 pm – Networking
6:30 pm – Dinner
7:30 pm – Presentation
COST
Professionals: $20.00
Students: Free
LOCATION
The Golden Lamb
Presidents Dining Room (2nd Floor – no elevator available)
27 S. Broadway Street
Lebanon, OH 45036
RSVP
Please RSVP to: [email protected] by January 13th by 5:00 PM
Larry Barley
Chairman, Dayton AWS