PREPARATION OF ROCKS AND HARD MATERIALS SERVICE

PREPARATION OF ROCKS AND HARD MATERIALS SERVICE
Kind of infrastructure
Services
Typology
Materials / solid state / nuclear physics
University
Zaragoza (UNIZAR)
Application / Industrial sector
Cultural heritage
Energy & environment
Description of equipment

This service has a staff of two technicians and offers a complete set of services that include all the necessary preliminary work and treatments on hard materials for their subsequent chemical analysis and textural study using microscopic techniques.

The service covers the treatment of any solid that you want to study: rocks, fossils, minerals, soils, construction aggregates, ceramics, mortars, concrete, bricks, metals, plastics, bones or stones, among others.

Its features are of great interest for different activities or work areas such as construction, mining, paleontology, archaeology, geology, materials science, etc.

The works that can be carried out directly by the service include microscopic preparations, mineralogical and metallographic polishing, grinding and preparation of samples, facing said samples for subsequent compression tests.

Location
Service
SAI
Features
Others tipologies
Imaging/microscopy
Technicians
YES
Equipment list
WIRE SAW, DISC SAW
POLISHERS
BALL MILLING, WIRE MILLING
Available measurements
Preparation of slides from rocks for microscopy
Sample preparation
TO BE DISCUSSED WITH TECHNICIANS
Price list
http://sai.unizar.es/preparacion-de-rocas-y-materiales-duros/tarifas
Possibility of on-site measurements
YES
Contact
Person name
MANUEL TRICAS
Email
mtricas@unizar.es
Phone
(34) 976761058