Electron Microscope Mystery 6
Posted: November 15, 2012 Filed under: Microscopy | Tags: microscopy, mystery, SEM 7 Comments »It’s funny how when I posted Mystery 5 I thought that after August, things would calm down (at NSF and in life). Ha! No.
So I bring you another microscope mystery! The photo below is about half a millimeter across. What do you think it is?
Update: 1:10p
This is proving to be a tricky one, so here’s a 5mm-wide view…
Update: 1:18p
Nice job in the comments, Lori! The first image is a soldered portion of a ring – an engagement ring, in fact. A few years ago, my intern got engaged. She came into the lab and asked me to check if the diamond was real. I asked, “are you sure you want to know the answer?” She did. It was.
Baaaaaaadly polished acrylic. Go back and do a better job.
Haha. Nope! Though I agree it looks like one of my early sample mount attempts.
World’s tiniest columnar basalts.
That would be awesome! But no.
A ring?
Yes! It’s a soldered part of a ring. I’ll update with a full diagram
A tooth on a zipper?