Almost all metallurgists are metallographers by default. In order to examine the physical structures of a metal, specimens must be prepared for analysis by grinding, polishing, etching, and mounting. After the proper preparation, metallographic specimens are ready to be viewed microscopically with light optical microscopes (LOM), scanning electron microscopes (SEM), an SEM combined with an energy dispersive spectrometer (SEM-EDS), transmission electron microscopes (TEM), or other techniques like X-ray diffraction (XRD).
Element experts answer your metals questions
Skilled metallurgists, engineers and failure analysts from Element provide companies with metallography and microscopy services, using advanced instrumentation, in order to answer important questions about their materials and products--questions like what elements or alloys are present in this metal? And, what is the microstructure of this sample?
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