Fluorescence and Mineral Identification {was: Re: [Rockhounds]fossils}

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

You wait for someone to invent a smarter phone that includes a 
spectrograph and buy one. Getting the tricorder option would probably 
be worthwhile.

Kreigh


On Friday, May 1, 2009, at 10:24 America/Detroit, Axel Emmermann wrote:

>> Before fluorescence can become generally useful in mineral
>> identification two things need to happen. The first is an easy and
>> cheap way to to capture the spectrum coming off a glowing rock - point
>> my smart phone at the rock and get a spectrogram -
>
> [Axel] How do you do that...???
>  Axel
>
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