Re: OT: nifty equipment sighting

At 8:51 PM -0400 9/29/07, Dave McGuire wrote:
>On Sep 29, 2007, at 8:43 PM, woodelf wrote:
>>>   I'm no chemist, but I assume they're some
oxide of tungsten.  
>>>That's what happens when an incandescent light
bulb blows out due 
>>>to loss of vacuum.  Pretty amazing stuff, if you
ask me.
>>
>>Looks organic like some thing was realy growing.
>
>   Yup.  I was amazed...I scanned around that filament
for many, many 
>hours.  It was like exploring a jungle.

I used to be part of a Micro-Mineral club, and each
newsletter would 
contain pictures of minerals made with an electron
microscope.  Some 
pretty amazing stuff.

		Zane



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