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Detection of oil/grease on aluminum surface
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1)Suggest me some methods to detect and quantify very,very small amounts of oil/grease on aluminum tubes.
2)Suggest me some methods to detect and quantify the formations of Aluminum oxide on aluminum tubes.
mechanical engineering student - Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
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If the tubes are small, bake it at 125F and weigh a pyrex dish or porcelain evaporation dish. Soak the tube with a suitable solvent. Evaporate the solvent, bake the dish again and weigh. This requires a very good analytical balance and does not discriminate between anything that comes off of the tube. To identify the oil or grease, it will take a good operator, a gas chromatograph and a great chromatographic library.
I guess a scanning electron microscope might work, but I would expect at least 50% variation in the results.
Now, tell us why you want to do this and the size of the parts.
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