This amazing crystal of pure gold was grown through vapor deposition and is only 10mm high.
I had to use my microscope to make this detailed photo, using 75 individual photos and putting them together with focus stacking.
It really is this bright and shiny!
Silver Crystals:
These silver crystals were electrochemically grown from a solution of silver nitrate, using silver electrodes.
The field of view is 18 mm and is composed of 92 individual photos, combined using focus stacking.
Copper Dendrites:
This dendritic structure of pure copper was grown during the copper plating or electro plating of various objects.
The field of view is about 3 cm high.
Magnesium Crystal Cluster Close-up:
This is a close-up of a synthetic magnesium crystal cluster. It was done by distilling magnesium and the group is about 3 cm wide. It is part of my personal collection of elements.
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These are beautiful! I love looking at these structures, the colors are so captivating and the structures and quite marvelous.
The copper structure looks like a volcanic eruption of some sort, and I just thought of what it would be like to see these crystal formations on a larger scale. Nonetheless, they are still magnificent in their uniqueness and originality.
You know how TF fanfics set on Cybertron often mention ‘crystals’?
I was watching TV, and a thing came on talking about these. (first four images relevant.) And suddenly I have all the ideas for Cybertronian geology. 8D
flipping hell. so i looked into that a little and
silver
copper
copper
nickel-iron meteorite
osmium
platinum
I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW ANY OF THIS WAS A THING
and i mean of course you have things like bismuth but like. wow.
Like, I want to be made into a beautiful glass thing. I want to be something treasured for a long time and rarely talked about. I want to live in the home of someone who loved me, and touched now and then in silent memory.
I want people to forget that I’m in there, I want the memory of what I am to pass out of the family’s knowledge. I want to be given away, and put out in a thriftstore somewhere.
I want someone to buy my ashes for $4.99 and put me in a window and love the colors. I want to cast beautiful, fractious and curving sunlight across the wall, sparkling and glowing and shimmering, depending on the time of day. I want someone to take a picture of me with the moon behind me, luminous and mysterious.
I want a witch to buy me and put me in her work room. I want an artist to leave me on their worktable. I want to inspire people and make them smile. I want to be warm from sunlight or chilly from the cool air. I want to be packed in newspaper carefully when they move. I want to be given as a holiday or graduation present to someone’s kid, I want to be given as a housewarming gift as a reminder of home.
And god, then, hopefully some day, I want to roll off the table, I want that globe to crack.
And then I want to haunt the living shit out of the future.
Holy shit, the comment made this sixty times more awesome and now I want this to be done to me too.
I too wish to be an ominous sparkle death orb
This gives my “become a tree” plan some competition.
Cybertronian Database 