Identifying the constituent elements of a material sample can be key to establishing the cause of its failure, to selecting an appropriate repair or replacement, or to verifying that the material is what was specified.
In this episode of WJE's "Solving for Why" series, chemist Tonya Werner demonstrates the use of our atomic absorption instrument to identify the concentration of different elements in a mortar sample.
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