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From: Phillip Bigelow [SMTP:bh162@scn.org]
Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 12:50 AM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: RE: Sinosauropteryx protofeathers
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"It's too bad that SEM machines cost so much, or I would already
have
one in my garage. Darn handy things to have around the house, I
would
imagine." (spoken to myself last summer while in a heat-stroke
stupor
in the middle of Montana).
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We have 5 SEM (scanning electron microscopes) here, but they
monitor what gets analyzed in them.
They're inside our Class One Room. Rumor had it that one of my
fellow physicists became curious &
stuck one of his hairs in a SEM. Haven't seen him for awhile...
:-) But, SEM'ing feathers would provide some interesting potential analysis
tools.
Dwight