Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Rocks, little bit closer II



Sorry for delay in posting some new photos, I was out of town. This picture is a photomicrograph of “Sillimanite” crystal under the polarizing light. All the colors are natural and there is no digital alteration. But why minerals are so colorful under the microscope? The answer is most of minerals are transparent and colorless in thin sections but because of their Refraction Index (RI), they produced birefringence colors under the polarizing light (see the sketches). RI of the minerals are directly depends on their crystallographic classes and also on the thickness of the thin section. This is why the standard 25 micron thickness is considered for studying rocks and minerals and to avoid any confusion; the glue which is used to fix the sample on the glass lamella should have the same RI as the glass. I promise not to go through these details if you feel these are BS stories, but if you enjoy reading these details please let me know.
اول از همه به‌خاطر تنبلي در به‌روز كردن وب سايت از همه عذر مي‌خواهم ولي باور كنيد كه خارج شهر بودم، بهانة خوبي بود نه؟ اين عكس رو از كاني سيليمانيت و با استفاده از ميكروسكوپ پلاريزان گرفتم. تمام رنگها طبيعي هستند و هيچ دستكاي در تصوير نشده. اما چرا كانيها در زير نور پلاريزه رنگي هستند؟ راستش رو بخواهيد بسياري از كانيها در زير ميكروسكوپ بي رنگ و شفاف هستند ولي به دليل ضريب شكست رنگهاي بيرفرنژانس توليد ميكنند، به تصوير شماتيك رجوع كنيد. اين ضريب شكست با سيستم تبلور كاني و ضخامت تيغه ارتباط مستقيم دارد. به همين دليل هستش كه براي مطالعه كانيها و سنگها از ضخامت استاندارد ٢٥ ميكرون استفاده مي‌شود و به جهت پرهيز از هرگونه اختلالي براي تثبيت نمونه بر روي لام از چسبي استفاده مي‌شود كه ضريب شكست آن برابر ضريب شكست شيشه است. قول مي‌دهم اگر اين توضيحات حوصله شما رو سر ميبره در آينده به آن نپردازم ولي اگر فكر كرديد كه مفيده حتماً بهم بگين

2 Comments:

Blogger MBrown said...

Absolutely you should keep writing about these!
For instance, I did not know that most of these thin slices were transparent or colorless until you told me, so I learned something today. Thanks!

Bet this image would look awesome on the wall, and so far, my favorite of the two. Very nice, ... and "very colorful". Reminds me a bit of my days back in the 70's.

Hope you have had a chance to visit the Photomacrography site. I think you just might enjoy it over there. I know that they would love to see images such as this that you have shown here today.
http://photomacrography.net/

Arash, do keep telling us more about these images.
As I have said, I have learned from you today. That is what it's all about! :)

6:47 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

salam in tozihat kheili zibast onvaght adam mifahme ke bayad deghat kone,vali kami tozihe bishtar baes mishe rahat tar darkesh konam. mamnoon

10:16 AM  

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