Ken A Vision T-1941 Instruction Manual - Scope
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Application
The Ken-A-Vision Comprehensive Polarizing Scope has a multitude
of applications. A primary use of polarizing microscopes is in geological
applications such as the studying of rock thin sections. A polarizing
microscope used with anisotropic materials allows the study of the
absorption color and boundaries between minerals of differing refractive
indices. Additionally, isotropic and anisotropic materials can be
differentiated in specimens such as natural and industrial minerals
(manufactured, refined or extracted). Every day materials such as
ceramics, polymers, and cements can be examined for their structure.
More recently many highly ordered biological materials such as wood,
starch, urea, DNA and collagen reveal new structural properties when
examined under polarized light.
Polarized light is a contrast-enhancing methodology that can improve
the quality of images obtained with birefringent materials, and may be
better than images obtained with darkfield or brightfield illumination,
phase contrast or fluorescence microscopy.
The Ken-A-Vision Comprehensive Polarizing Scope may be used
both as a polarizing microscope (both analyzer and polarizer filters in light
pathway) or as a brightfield microscope with the filters rotated out of
position.