Materials analysis
Materials analysis is an important foundation of our laboratory. The wide variety of methods we use allow us to comprehensively characterise the materials of the chemical elements, mineral phases/compounds or the surface or structure.
What we offer you for your analysis task:
- Product safety through a variety of different analyses
- Speed
- Precision
- Proximity to our customers and customer-specific advising
- Modern equipment
- Accredited testing processes
- An experienced and well-trained team
- Sampling and sample pick-up by our qualified samplers
The following are just some of the typical materials we test:
Oxides and minerals
- Refractory materials / raw materials
- Slags
- Glass and ceramic
- Cement
- Ores and stones
- Asbestos and artificial mineral fibres
Metals
- Steels
- Special materials
- Scraps
- Residual and recyclable materials
Alloys and aggregates
- Ferroalloys
- Lime
- Fluorspar
- Silicon carbide
Other materials
- Oils and paints
- Multi-component systems
- Carbons and other fuels (solid, organic, secondary)
- and much more
Typical analytic methods used in materials analysis include:
Elementary analysis
- • X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF)
- Spectroscopy using inductively coupled plasmas (ICP-OES, ICP-MS)
- Ion chromatography (IC)
- Combustion (IR detection, WLD)
- Atom absorption spectrometry (AAS)
- Scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EM-ED)
- X-ray diffraction (XRD)
Organic compounds
- Gas chromatography (HS-GC, GC-MS, GC-FID, pyrolysis)
- Outgassing tests
Physical properties
- Melting properties (hot stage microscopy),
- Grain size distribution (screening analysis, laser granulometric analysis),
- Density (true density, grain gross density, ...)
- Moisture, annealing loss, ash content
If you have any questions on these analyses, please contact our laboratory team at: anfrage-analytics@horn-co.de