Report prepared by

 

MARK WAINWRIGHT ANALYTICAL CENTRE

on

 

ANALYSIS OF
EARS POWDER

 

 
 

 

 

 


ANALYSIS OF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

T M Flynn

 

 

 

 

 

for

 

 

Company:                                  One Heart Company

Contact:                                     Ja Su Lee and Chen In Lee

 

 

 

 

31 August 2012

 

Project No 12176

 

 

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ANALYSIS OF EARS POWDER

 

1.0          SAMPLE

One plastic bag containing a fine white powder was received for identification and heavy metals analysis.

0METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS

The sample was analysed directly by X-Ray Diffraction Spectroscopy to identify the mineral matter in the sample, by X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry to determine the elemental chemical composition of the sample and by acid dissolution and ICP/MS for heavy metals.  The approximate chemical composition of the powder sample was:

     Calcium sulphate (Bassanite)                                29%

     Magnesium aluminium silicate (Clinochlore)         30%

     Magnesium silicate (Talc)                                     25%

     Aluminium sulphate (Millosevichite)                      15%

     Calcium carbonate (Dolomite)                              less than 1%

     Mixed silicate (Edenite)                                        less than 1%

 

The levels of heavy metals found in the sample were as follows:

            Arsenic                                       not detected (<0.01 ppm)

            Barium                                       not detected          

            Cadmium                                   not detected          

            Chromium                                  0.25 ppm

            Copper                                      1.47 ppm

            Lead                                          not detected          

            Mercury                                     not detected          

            Nickel                                        1.0 ppm

Not detected = less than 0.01 ppm for all elements

ppm  = milligrams per kilogram

Terry Flynn, BSc, FRACI, C.Chem.

Manager, Chemical Consulting Laboratory,

Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, UNSW