
Description
This programme helps students understand the principles of identifying minerals in the polarising microscope. Light passed through different minerals is effected in different ways and this can be u...sed to identify different minerals in rock thin sections.
This programme helps students understand the principles of identifying minerals in the polarising microscope. Light passed through different minerals is effected in different ways and this can be u...sed to identify different minerals in rock thin sections.
Module code and title: | S236, Geology |
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Item code: | S236; 05 |
First transmission date: | 24-04-1983 |
Published: | 1983 |
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Duration: | 00:23:57 |
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Producer: | Stuart Carter |
Contributor: | John Wright |
Publisher: | BBC Open University |
Subject terms: | Colors--Analysis; Interference (Light); Microscopes; Polarisation (Social sciences); Microscopy; Mineralogy |
Master spool number: | HOU3856 |
Production number: | FOUS223S |
Videofinder number: | 1575 |
Available to public: | no |