A micrograph of some wacky crystals I found.
Sometimes even crap looks cool.
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Yeah, some salt crashing out of PBS (either sodium, or phosphate ... or perhaps calcium phosphate???)
Here's another cool crystal from a couple of years ago:
http://scienceblogs.com/transcript/2006/03/friday_eye_candy.php
Sometimes even crap looks cool.
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