Hey, thought I would share this with you guys. I am doing a project for my Scanning Electron Microscope class that involved looking at the surface of an aluminum arrow and measuring the thickness of the anodized layer on the outer surface of the arrow.
What does all of this mean? Well it doesn't really matter.
Basically a scanning electron microscope works by shooting a column of electrons at your sample to take pictures. Don't really feel like getting into how it works lol.
Just thought I would show you guys some cool views of an arrow you've probably never seen before.
The first is a cross section of the arrow. Everything on the inside of the crack is the arrow. You can see a change in color. That is the boundary between the anodized layer and the aluminum underneath. The anodized layer is actually a pourous alumina layer that protects the aluminum underneath and since it's pourous it accepts the dye so you can get your colored shafts.
The next is the outter pourous anodized surface a 600X, pretty low magnification.
This last one is a close up of some of the pores.
Now what difference does this make in your shooting? Absolutely none!
Just thought I'd share some cool pics (at least to me) with you guys.
Aluminum Arrow like you've never seen before!
