What experiments can be conducted on an experimental muffle furnace?

The experimental muffle furnace is a universal heating device widely used in multiple disciplinary fields, capable of supporting various types of experiments. The following are the main types of experiments that experimental muffle furnaces can perform and their brief descriptions:

1. Ashing experiment
Purpose: To remove organic substances and leave inorganic ash in the sample by high-temperature burning, which can be used for analyzing the inorganic components in the sample.
Applications: Soil analysis, food analysis, environmental monitoring, etc.

2. Melting experiment
Purpose: To heat the sample above its melting point, melt it, and mix it with other substances to form a uniform melt, which is used to prepare glass, ceramics, or alloys with specific compositions.
Applications: Materials Science, Geology, Metallurgy, etc.

3. Heat treatment experiment
Purpose: To change the microstructure and properties of materials, such as hardness, toughness, corrosion resistance, etc., by controlling the heating and cooling processes.
Applications: Heat treatment of metal materials, sintering of ceramic materials, preparation of composite materials, etc.

4. Burning experiment
Purpose: To induce chemical reactions or physical changes in certain components of the sample at high temperatures, such as oxidation, reduction, decomposition, etc., for the purpose of analyzing the composition of the sample or preparing specific compounds.
Applications: chemical analysis, mineralogy, inorganic chemistry, etc.

5. Atmosphere control experiment
Although ordinary muffle furnaces do not directly provide atmosphere control functions, they can be combined with specific devices or modified to achieve: in some experiments, heating treatment needs to be carried out under specific atmosphere conditions (such as inert gas, reducing gas, or oxidizing gas). The experimental muffle furnace can be combined with an atmosphere control device to meet this special requirement.
Applications: material synthesis, catalyst preparation, battery material research, etc.

6. Program temperature control experiment
Purpose: To precisely control the heating and cooling process of the sample through a preset temperature program to meet specific experimental requirements.
Applications: thermal analysis, phase change research, material aging testing, etc.