{"id":815,"date":"2014-02-08T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2014-02-08T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T22:46:11","slug":"an-introduction-to-metallography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2014\/an-introduction-to-metallography","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to metallography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks generally don&#8217;t know what metallography is (an art form? a record collection? a synonym for molybdomancy), and even when I try to explain (in those cases where they care to know or feel etiquette demands they enquire), it&#8217;s often hard to imagine visually what I&#8217;m talking about.\u00c2\u00a0 Leica Microsystems has published a fine <a title=\"Leica's introductory article on metallography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leica-microsystems.com\/science-lab\/metallography-an-introduction\/?nlc=DEWE-9FRM59\">introductory article to metallography<\/a> with pretty pictures that should help y&#8217;all visualize a bit better what I do for a living.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, I met the author of the article when I worked for Nanosurf and he distributed our microscopes.\u00c2\u00a0 When I left, he expressed some envy that I was moving into metallography, a field he loved.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s great to see him back with passion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks generally don&#8217;t know what metallography is (an art form? a record collection? a synonym for molybdomancy), and even when I try to explain (in those cases where they care to know or feel etiquette demands they enquire), it&#8217;s often hard to imagine visually what I&#8217;m talking about.\u00c2\u00a0 Leica Microsystems has published a fine introductory article to metallography with pretty pictures that should help y&#8217;all visualize a bit better what I do for a living. On a side note, I met the author of the article when I worked for Nanosurf and he distributed our microscopes.\u00c2\u00a0 When I left, he expressed some envy that I was moving into metallography, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}