JonesBeene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: >
> Good point. Jed knows the details of the mass spec Mizuno had available, > which was damaged in the earthquake. IIRC it was being repaired when the > paper was written and its present status has not been reported. Perhaps he > will comment on this. > ULVAC quadrupole mass spectrometer: model YTP-50M. Built in precision meter, ULVAC, GCMT G-Tran ISG-1 I do not know if this has the umph to measure helium. It is working. The SEM is still busted and will take $20,000 or $30,000 to fix. > Surely Mizuno was looking for helium before his lab was destroyed - so it > is expected that he knows how to resolve the small mass difference. > I do not know if he did this or not.
