Hello all,
As a student (still...) of Materials Science and Engineering I have encountered lots of microstructures during my education. From a scientific point of view, all the photographs of the microstructures have got SCALEBARS IN THE PICTURE.
Regrettably, I have rarely encountered this in acheological-metallurgical photographs. (Recently I have read an article on Monumental Brasses by Peter Northover, with some microstructure photos without scalebar, and a subscript 'magnification 250x', which tells us exactly nothting, for how do we know that during printing the image has not been scaled up or down?)
So I would like to press you all to use scalebars or some kind of reference as to the magnification inside the microstructure, which scales along with the image. Only this way will you ever be taken seriously by the hard-core scientific world. And that's what we all want, isn't it?
Also, Metallography is a very old word for microstructure analysis, and nowadays rarely used by modern scientists, although it is in theory a correct word to use.
Having said all of this, I do not mean to step on any toes, or be a know-it-all, consider this just as a comment on what I've seen (and I must admit, it is not as much as I would like to), and maybe a bit of advice to who will take it.
Kind regards,
Sylvia Leever (MSc in three weeks from now...)
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