Wednesday 4 July 2018

Muscovite under polarization microscope


Muscovite has an anisotropic crystal structure, with two optical axis and a negative optical sign. The images and video taken with a polarization microscope with crossed polarizers and the Bertrand lens in place, are showing interference images (without lambda filter) in the plane perpendicular to the bisector between the two optical axes.To obtain these images, a thin slice of muscovite was split off from the crystal and taken for examination. Light entering this slice of crystal, produces the typical interference images for this type of crystal.




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