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CNC Video Measuring System Permits Quality Monitoring for Clamason Industries

An ideal general purpose 3D coordinate measuring system with 300 x 200 x 150mm stage travel, the NEXIV-3020 handles a variety of measurement tasks including those for mechanical parts, molded parts, stamped parts and various other workpieces.

From Nikon Instruments Inc. 29 Oct 2007

$An Introduction to Refractometry$

An Introduction to Refractometry

You’ve lost the key to your locker in the swimming pool. You spot it lying on the bottom of the shallow part of the pool, reach in to take it – and your hand misses. The refraction of light at the boundary of two different materials can be explained as easily as that.

From A.KRÜSS Optronic GmbH 25 Oct 2007

High Precision Optical Measuring Instruments

The characterisation of the purity of oils, waxes, fats and other by-products of the raffination process of mineral oils is easily done with an ABBE-refractometer. This historic instrument standard is easy to use in the laboratory but has some difficulties when it comes to emulsions or darker samples.

From A.KRÜSS Optronic GmbH 25 Oct 2007

Polarizer - Basic Definition and Types of Polarizers

A polarizer is a device that converts a beam of electromagnetic waves such as light which is unpolarized or mixed-polarization into a beam with a single linear polarization state.

From CODIXX AG 21 Oct 2007

Liquid Crystals - What are Liquid Crystals and How They Are Used to Construct LCDs

A liquid crystal display, commonly abbreviated as LCD, is a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light source or reflector. It is often utilized in battery-powered electronic devices because it uses very small amounts of electric power.

20 Oct 2007