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Hard to believe these are real....
« on: February 08, 2005, 08:00:30 am »
They are just so beautiful & perfect....

Just goes to show, you can't be mother nature.....

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Re: Hard to believe these are real....
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2005, 11:24:29 am »
They are indeed beautiful!

For more examples of photomicrography, check this out!
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Re: Hard to believe these are real....
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2005, 11:37:02 am »
Wow! Truly impressive flakes...snow flakes that is. :)
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Re: Hard to believe these are real....
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2005, 04:25:47 pm »
They are indeed pretty....

But there were times living in upstate NY (Niagara Falls) and being stationed in MI, that I just didn't have the time to appreciate them, I was too busy shoveling...now I have a snow blower, 'cause the boys have moved out  :D 

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Re: Hard to believe these are real....
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2005, 04:33:14 pm »
Neat stuff! Watching sugars crystallise out of solution with the false color of a differential interference contrast micoscope at 500x magnification is absolutely incredible... hard not to lose hours just gazing at them... films behave most interestingly too...

Coulda been a crystallographer easy... best one I know is pretty nuts though...