Olivine Small

Practical significance

Cometary and asteroidal dust analog.

Origin

Mechanical milling of some of the original Olivine Pebbles

Main constituent
Olivine Fe0.16Mg1.84SiO4
Color
White
Particle size Mie: reff (μm)
2.4
Particle size Mie: veff
1.0
Size distribution plot:
Size Distribution Olivine Small
Size distribution table
size_olivine_small.txt
Particle shape

Irregular

SEM/TEM images:
Olivine Small SEM Image
All SEM/TEM images (zip file)
sem_olivine_small.zip
Scattering matrix (1) wavelength in nm
514.00 nm
Scattering matrix (1) table
matrix_olivine_small_514nm.txt
Scattering matrix (1) plot:
Scattering matrix elements Olivine Small
Refractive index

1.62 + i0.00005 (see the Jena-St. Petersburg Database of Optical Constants, Henning et al. 1999 ).

Angle range (deg)
[3,177]
Reference/s
Frattin et al., 2022