An optical test was developed for amalgam alloys by condensing amalgams against stainless steel blocks with regularly spaced grooves forming diffraction gratings. The quality of the diffraction pattern obtained with a He-Ne laser from these amalgams is a measure of the adaptation to the grooves.
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