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Mineral database

    18-Jan-95 23:15:03
Sb: #163586-Mineral database
Fm: Al Balmer 71564,1304
To: Doug Mitchell 70621,702
Doug, >> wonder if somehow it could decide luster also from that scan… Hmmm… There should be enough information there, but you'd have to get so close to the hardware it would probably be different for every brand. A scanner has a lot of stuff not needed, too. I wonder if anybody markets a pocket colorimeter? Should be able to make it about the size of a fontain pen. Use fixed-frequency diode lasers for the color light source. On-board memory to hold a couple of hundred measurements and a serial port to dump the data into your desktop PC. Anybody want to invest a couple million in a new business I just invented? Al