Fishy Scales and Ecphora Shell Under a PSEM

John Nance sent in two samples to be scanned by ASPEX’s elemental analyzer PSEM eXplorer.

A Ecphora Shell is actually a subspecies of a ferocious predator sea snail which is now an extinct member of rock snail family, Muricidae. Pretty cool stuff.

Included in this sample were fish scales. Don’t they look like grains of rice under our scanning electron microscopes?



Manual image analysis was performed on the sent samples and the customer had requested to provide images of the above scans. Reports were prepared using ASPEX Personal Image Print II (PIP^TM).

Secondary electron detector (SED) images were collected under high vacuum conditions and 20 KeV. The sample was gold coated to eliminate sample charging.

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