Mastering Sample Preparation: Key Techniques, Essential Tools, and Best Practices
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Water Based or Oil Based Diamond Suspension: A Two Minute Decision Guide
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Run water based diamond suspension unless your material gives you a specif...
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Smearing, Pull Out, Edge Rounding, and Relief: Diagnosing the Four Classic Polishing Artifacts
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Every one of these artifacts imitates a real material feature. Smearing hid...
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How a Petrographic Thin Section Is Made, and How You Know You Hit 30 Microns
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products A petrographic thin section is a slice of rock ground to 30 microns, thin ...
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What Micron Size Diamond Should You Use at Each Polishing Step?
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products The sequence our customers run more than any other is 9, 6, 3, then 1 micro...
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Scratches on Your Polished Sample? Here Is Where They Actually Come From
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products A scratch that survives final polishing was almost never made by your fina...
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Why Your Colloidal Silica Keeps Crystallizing, and the Routine That Stops It
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Colloidal silica is amorphous and harmless while wet. Let it dry, on the cl...
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Diamond Paste or Diamond Suspension? Pick Based on How You Polish
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products The abrasive inside is the same. What differs is the carrier. Diamond past...
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Colloidal Silica vs Alumina: Choosing Your Final Polishing Abrasive
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products When customers ask us which final polish to buy, our first question back i...
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SiC Grit Sequences and the Complete Grit to Micron Conversion Chart
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products For most mounted metallographic samples, grind 240, 400, then 600 grit ANSI...
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How to Prepare a Metallographic Sample, Step by Step
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Metallographic sample preparation follows six stages in fixed order: sectio...
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Monocrystalline vs Polycrystalline Diamond: Which Should You Actually Use?
By Jay Shah, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Use monocrystalline diamond for hard, brittle materials like carbides, cera...
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Can You Use Third Party Consumables on Buehler, Struers, or Allied Equipment? An Honest Answer
By Sam Desai, Technical Team, Beta Diamond Products Yes. Polishers do not read labels. A grinder polisher spins a platen and d...
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