MEIJI POLARIZING MICROSCOPE INFORMATION
Polarizing microscopes are used in many different types of scientific studies. Some of these studies include: geology, pharmaceutics, petrology, chemistry, mineralogy, toxicology, medicine, forensics, the pulp and paper industry, to study atmospheric pollution, and in evaluating ceramics. Urologists also use polarizing microscopes to identify crystals in samples. Polarizing microscopes are different from standard high-power microscopes in that they use two polarizing filters in the light path. These filters, known as a polarizer and an analyzer allow the user to identify items that are not as easy to identify with a standard brightfield microscope. Crossing the filters makes it possible to examine birefringent specimens such as calcite and quartz. Polarized microscopes work with polarized light and all lenses in the microscope have to be "strain free". Meiji Techno's polarizing microscopes meet all of the standards for high quality strain free objectives to provide a quality image.
Polarizing microscopes generally have two options for the light source - they will have either transmitted light only, or both reflected and transmitted light.
PHOTOS TAKEN OF THIN ROCK SECTIONS WITH ML9000 POLARIZING MICROSCOPE
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Biaxial Interference Figures
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Limestone
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Gabbro
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