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We're trying to reduce surface chlorides so that Rh indices can be easily inspected without adjacent interference.
I've read some silly things, like using warm soy milk, but I'm trying not to ADD anything to the specimen I'm sampling. Zero contamination is best.
This leads me to think that there may be some form of cheap chemistry we could use to not only wash a surface, but suppress capillary action in the rock, preventing, or at least substantially reducing chloride return to the surface.
High chloride well cores, as listed in the project to which this question is attached. These include primarily carbonates which are adjacent to, or at least near, evaporates, or where mobile chlorides have pushed through the region. We're currently playing with A1 Carbonates of Michigan.
I have been told that the best way to do it is to take a non-shedding (tightly knit) cloth with warm water and wipe the surface off (removing the salts). Then remove most of the water and scan it within 1-1.5 minutes so the salts do not have a chance to re precipitate. That's just what I have heard I have not tried it.
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