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Atlas of Hardwood Identification Portable Microscope with Smartphone Ruyan Tian

This Atlas consists of a new sanding method that is introduced by the authors.




Readers will learn how-to: Sand a piece of wood cross surface under flowing water. Capture a micro-photograph with a smartphone and portable microscope. Adjust the magnification of a micro-photograph to match the images contained within this book. Identify distinctive features that can be seen in a micro-photograph.

With these instructions, readers can obtain high quality wood surface samples and sharp micro-photographs that can be compared with microscopic slides.




The Atlas also contains 278 species of wood with over 800 color images that are included for the reader to reference, including a macro-view, 13X, and 30X cross surface images of each species, many of which are commercially important hardwoods.




This is particularly useful to wood anatomists engaged in automatic identification analysis. Everyone responsible for the verification of wood agents, are involved in the timber trade law enforcement, the CITES inspector, curators of wood repair and cultural heritages, forestry researchers, students of wood anatomy, and wood collectors will find this book is a great help.




From Youtube's "Wood Identification by Microscope Ruling"
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