Wednesday 14 March 2012

Salicine Crystals - andy underwood

This colourful illustration is a polarised light photomicrograph of a most interesting chemical called Salicine. In other words it is a highly magnified image (enlarged about two hundred times) taken with the aid of a special microscope technique that uses the natural refraction of these crystals to produce a pattern of rainbow colours.





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