Recycling metal is essential because it reduces the amount of scrap bound for landfills and reduces the need to mine ores, but it’s not necessarily the reason scrap processors started their businesses ...

In this study, several types of metals were tested for identification based on their spectral lines. Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a type of atomic emission spectroscopy which ...

Rigaku Analytical Devices has announced the launch of Katana™, a handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) analyzer. Katana enables durable and accurate alloy identification for use in ...

Only 12 types of metal were known a few hundred years earlier. At present, over 3500 different materials exist just in the steel industry. There also exist more than 340,000 metal grades, described by ...