Vulcan Expert / Vulcan Smart This is Vulcan, the metal analyzer with the most advanced reporting tools on the market. Accurate alloy identification will be much easier and faster using Vulcan. It's designed for precision, easy to use, durable and capable of delivering accurate and consistent results from the widest range of alloys and materials. Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is consudered a non-destructive technique- less than 1 billion of a gram of material is consumed during a typicall test. Laser pulses-generate a high temperature micro-plasma on the surface of the metal. Microscopic particle are exploded from the surface into the plasma where they are atomized and energized. After this excitation, light that is characteristic of the elemental composition of the metal is emitted and analyzed within the spectrometer. The laser is very powerful but it is focused to a microscopic point on the sample and causes virtually no sample heating around the test area. Vulcan Expert/Vulcan Smart, the fastest alloy sorter on the market, can cover a wide range of alloys and applications including Stainless steels, Aluminum alloys, Magnesium alloys, low alloy steels, Nickel alloys, Copper alloys, Brasses, Titanium alloys, Cobalt alloys, and Beryllium in Copper.