[sdpd] Berman Balance for precision density measurements?

[Lachlan Cranswick <L.M.D.Cranswick...@dl.ac.uk>]

For measuring the density of samples for structure solution from
single crystals or powder - would anyone close to London, UK 
have a Berman Balance or similar apparatus for Precision 
density measurements?

Berman Balance reference (thanks to Richard Staples at Harvard):
    Berman, American Mineralogist (24) 1939, 434-440.

It is not unconceivable that a few mineralogy or geology
labs may have a Berman Balance around the place - either 
deposited in a cupboard or used as an oversized paperweight?

Thanks in advance,

Lachlan.

PS: Berman Balance is referred to in the following webpage at 
    Harvard University:

X-ray Powder Diffraction
    http://xrpc4.harvard.edu/powder1.html

Berman Laboratory

"The Berman Laboratory honors the work of Associate Professor 
Harry Berman, one of the world's foremost mineralogists, 
who lost his life in an aircraft accident in World War II 
while working on the quartz oscillator project for the U.S. 
Government."

[text deleted]

"Precision density measurements can be made using the Berman 
Balance."

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Lachlan M. D. Cranswick

Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14)
    for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction
  Birkbeck University of London and Daresbury Laboratory 
Postal Address: CCP14 - School of Crystallography,
                Birkbeck College,
                Malet Street, Bloomsbury,
                WC1E 7HX, London,  UK
Tel: (+44) 020 7631 6850   Fax: (+44) 020 7631 6803
E-mail: l.m.d.cranswick...@dl.ac.uk   Room: B091
WWW: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/


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