Is the picture working for anyone else? Just noticed that the link wasn't working at uni, but the mistake should be fixed now...
For those bored enough to take an interest, the top picture is a 16x shot of one of the rough diamonds. Zooming in to ~600x magnification, individual crystal faces start to stand out (each sample is made of hundreds of tiny diamonds and other crystals, all intergrown).
The other two photos are at about 1500-2000x magnification, looking at particular surfaces and edges on the crystals. You're probably looking at a couple of pixels from the top image... (well, shot 2 & 3 are from a different sample, but it's much of a muchness...)
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Date: 2004-03-08 07:28 am (UTC)For those bored enough to take an interest, the top picture is a 16x shot of one of the rough diamonds. Zooming in to ~600x magnification, individual crystal faces start to stand out (each sample is made of hundreds of tiny diamonds and other crystals, all intergrown).
The other two photos are at about 1500-2000x magnification, looking at particular surfaces and edges on the crystals. You're probably looking at a couple of pixels from the top image... (well, shot 2 & 3 are from a different sample, but it's much of a muchness...)
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Date: 2004-03-08 08:04 am (UTC)That's actually fairly interesting. I never had a microscope powerful enough to properly look at things like that.
Post more next time you want to procrastinate. Heh