Acquisition of Electron Probe Microanalyzer

该合同将提供购买电子探针显微分析仪所需资金的三分之一，该分析仪将安装在俄勒冈州立大学的海洋学院。其余三分之二的资金来自大学(州立)和私人(默多克基金会)专门用于这一目的的资金。该大学还致力于该仪器的安装和维护。电子探针显微分析仪是一种多功能仪器，能够对地质和合成材料进行定量元素分析，浓度水平可达0.01%，空间分辨率可达0.001毫米。因此，它是处理天然和合成材料的化学成分的所有研究中的标准分析工具。新仪器将是俄勒冈州立大学的第一台也是唯一一台这样的仪器。

This award will provide one-third of the funding necessary to purchase an electron probe microanalyzer to be installed in the College of Oceanography at the Oregon State University. The remaining two-thirds are coming from a combination of University (state) and private (Murdock Foundation) funds earmarked for this purpose. The University is further committed to the installation and maintenance of the instrument. The electron probe microanalyzer is a versatile instrument capable of quantitative elemental analysis of geological and synthetic materials down to the 0.01% concentration level and with spatial resolution in the 0.001 millimeter range. As such it is a standard analytical tool in all research dealing with the chemical composition of natural and synthetic materials. The new instrument will be the first and only such instrument at Oregon State University.