What is the magnification?
Dave McGuire wrote:
> On April 13, Peter Joules wrote:
> > > http://www.neurotica.com/sem/images if you're interested. The blown
> > > tungsten lamp filament pics are filament-1.jpg and filament-2.jpg.
> >
> > That's amazing. I take it that the crystals had grown on the filament
> > during the life of the bulb had they? Does anyone know the mechanisn for
> > this?
>
> It is my understanding that those crystals grew during the
> "flameout" of the filament.
>
> I spent a solid six hours one night going over that filament. I
> wish Polaroid 550PN film wasn't so damn expensive. I need to build a
> digital imager for my microscope.
>
> -Dave McGuire
Received on Fri Apr 13 2001 - 15:32:48 BST