The SHArK project produced results today. But don't get all excited. This picture is exactly what the scanning station recorded. Something has gone wrong, we are checking for errors in the scanning station. This was a plate with combinations of Cobalt, Aluminum, Copper, and Iron deposited by the pipette method. Each deposition was duplicated somewhere else on the slide. Each droplet measured precisely 5.0 microliters. Each droplet had a .35 molar concentration of metal nitrate salt, .015 molar concentration of nitric acid, and a .6 molar concentration of ammonium nitrate. The plate was prepared 8/31/09 and fired for approximately 24 hrs. Finally it was scanned 9/2/09. It was placed in a 0.1 molar sodium hydroxide solution and a .5 volt positive bias was applied to it.
This plate is plate P1 because it is the first plate prepared by the pipette method.
The results are unsatisfactory.
I can be emailed at krum.spencer@gmail.com if anyone wants the text output before I put it up on the internet somewhere.
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