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Phase-Contrast in the Photomicrography of Metals

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THE method of phase-contrast1 has been successfully applied in this Laboratory to the ‘vertical’illumination metallurgical microscope.

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CUCKOW, F. Phase-Contrast in the Photomicrography of Metals. Nature 159, 639–640 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159639a0

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