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Polarizing Microscopes .com is your location for a huge variety of polarizing light microscopes. Features include plane polarized transmitted light and cross polarized transmitted light, complete with Bertrand lens and compensator plates such as quartz wedge, mica, and gypsum. They have both a polarizer and an analyzer that can be turned to the extinction angle to view rock and mineral thin sections under crossed polarization. These are great for mineral identification in geological laboratories and petrology departments. Whatever your needs are in polarized light microscopy, please give us a call to assist you with a solution. - [Details]

Metallurgical Microscopes is a microscope dealer providing high quality optical equipment for the inspection and research of metallurgical specimens. This type of microscope comes in a variety of configurations including upright metallurgical microscopes, inverted metallurgical microscopes, forensic comparison metallurgical microscopes, and field portable metallurgical microscopes. The upright metallographic microscope can also be used for viewing semiconductor silicon wafers under high power magnification using epi-illumination. The inverted, upright, and field-portable metallurgical microscopes can be used for viewing metal surfaces as well as other opaque polished surfaces. Research and development in metallurgy requires the use of a metallographic microscope for viewing the grain structures in various metal alloys and metal heat treating processes. Whatever your metallurgical microscope needs may be, please contact Metallurgical Microscopes .com for a solution to your microscopy. - [Details]

Ore Microscopes .com is your source for microscopes with the ability to view thick polished rock and mineral specimens under polarized light. A standard polarizing microscope has the ability for only transmitted polarized light, meaning the light must go through the rock and mineral thin section. If the ore sample is thick and opaque, then no light will transmit, so it must be viewed with reflected incident illumination. An ore microscope has the ability to view the birefringent mineral specimen in reflected polarized light. Our ore microscopes also have the added feature of using transmitted polarized light such as used in a polarized light microscope. Rock and mineral identification requires polarized light, and specifically, the ability to initially polarize the incoming light with a polarizer, then, before the eyepieces, run the light beam through a second polarized filter called an analyzer. The angle of rotation of the polarizer and analyzer in an ore microscope is measured. - [Details]