[labnetwork] Evaporating Iridium

[EDWARDS, JASON R CTR USAF AFMC AFRL/RYDD]

Good morning network,
              I am interested to see if any of you have experience using Iridium in your evaporation systems. We are getting conflicting information from various manufacturers on how we should go about melting our Iridium. Our OEM recommends melting straight in the pocket while Lesker recommends using their Fabmate crucible liner. If you evaporate Iridium, do you use a liner in your system? In what form do you receive your Iridium? Pellets, shot, rods? For what it is worth the Iridium that was purchased for us is flat fractured pieces ranging in size from dust to 8mm, which seems less than ideal.

Thanks,



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Jason Edwards
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