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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.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: S236, Geology
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