Petrographic Microscopes
Ore Microscopes 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, and can be turned 90 degrees for cross polarization at the extinction angle. Our ore microscopes have all the necessary features including a Bertrand lens, polarizer, analyzer, compensator plates, transmitted polarized light and reflected polarized light. We recommend you to contact our technical sales staff for answers to your questions about ore and polarized light microscopes.
Ore Microscopes .com has a good selection of ore polarized light microscopes for sale. These ore microscopes are great for geology and petrology studies as they are primarily used for rock and mineral identification and analysis. Thick polished specimens of rocks and minerals are viewed under these ore microscopes using plane and cross polarized light. The ore microscope differs from the normal polarizing microscope in that it has the added feature of using incident reflected polarized light on the specimen, allowing a thick opaque polished rock to be viewed in great detail. A standard polarized microscope only is capable of using transmitted polarized light on a transparent rock and mineral thin section. Ore microscopes is your source for the microscopes you need for examining, analyzing, and identifying rocks and minerals. Contact them today for more details about their optical microscopy items.
