Get them while they’re young
School children get to grips with particle analysis with Whitehouse Scientific
Each team of six children enjoyed hands-on experience using a microscope, image analysis system and sieves as they learned how to analyse particles and prepare reference standards. They learned first-hand about the impact of particle properties in sand as they helped load a cement mixer.
Graham Rideal, chief executive of Whitehouse Scientific, said: ‘To understand the relevance of particle size and shape, the children were asked to measure a range of particles; from cobblestones being laid in a new courtyard, to industrial diamonds used in polishing high precision satellite lenses.
‘These extremes of particle size provided the most excitement for the 11-year-olds; the diamonds because they had never seen diamonds so small before and the cobblestones because of the loud bang when they were split with the 10-ton hydraulic rock splitter.’
Rideal has long believed in the importance of promoting science in primary schools. This latest event follows a ten-year history of involvement, which began when his company built a local science trail, also aimed at school children.
Whitehouse Scientific is a leading producer of glass microspheres for calibration, and is the highest-ranking European certification laboratory for primary methods of particle size analysis.
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