Research Proposal Outline: Check
My proposal outline is due tomorrow and I've just finished writing it. I have a bit more information on my project now. Tests will all be run at 1 atm because diffusion in olivine is a slow process and pressure just makes it slower. At temperatures below 1400 degrees, it can take 6+ months to get just the minimum diffusion length to enable electron microprobe analysis. Obviously, we wouldn't want to make this take that much longer. I don't even have a year to finish this, so that is clearly unacceptable. Temperatures will range from 1400 C to 2000 C and 3 different lengths of time will be tested in order to check the accuracy of the experiments, as the diffusion coefficient should not change as a function of time. In addition, diffusion will be measured in all 3 crystal axes in half of the experiments and just the fastest axis in the rest. This is in order to get a feel for how it works in all directions, but still get the project completed on time.
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