About MVA Scientific Consultants

MVA Scientific Consultants helps to meet some of these challenges by providing critical analysis and support utilizing microscopy-- the application of the microscope to study objects too small to see with the unaided eye.

Utilizing Electron and Light Microscopy, the Firm serves a variety of industries and interests throughout the world. We are the leading authority in the Science of Small Things.

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A fusion preparation of anthracene recrystallized from a melt taken with a polarizing light microscope at approximately 200X magnification.

Image is of a fusion preparation of anthracene sublimated on to a microscope slide, crossed polars. Approximately 100X magnification.

Image is of a fusion preparation of TNT recrystallized from a melt taken with a polarizing light microscope at approximately 125X magnification.

Image is of an amphibole (multiple exposures) taken at approximately 400X magnification with a polarizing light microscope.

Scanning electron micrograph (color and graphics added) of a welding shot particle. Particle is approximately 15 micrometers across.

Soil samples that were taken from the area under San Francisco’s famed Golden Gate Bridge showing the sequence of paint layers in the paint chips.

Image is a three-dimensional data set showing a surface roughness profile of the Lincoln Memorial found on the reverse of a Lincoln penny at approximately 150X magnification. Image was created using a scanning white light interference microscope.

Image is of glass fibers taken with a polarizing light microscope using a central stop dispersion staining objective at 125X magnification.

Image is of a fusion preparation of DDT recrystallized from a melt taken with a polarizing light microscope at approximately 200X magnification. Image is of a fusion preparation of DDT recrystallized from a melt taken with a polarizing light microscope at approximately 200X magnification.