Two and a half very pleasing minutes of macro photography featuring ice crystals forming on the surface of soap bubbles in frigid temperatures – shot over the course of 30 hours by the very patient Jens Heildler.
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A crystal that looks uncannily like a large chicken tender, found by gemstone jewellery seller Amelia Rude.
Originally posted to the #forbiddensnacks subreddit, then retweeted, generating similar food-alike rocks. To wit:
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Ice pops fashioned from resin studded with hundreds of thousands of multi-coloured Swarovski crystals by Chicago based artist David Jacob.
Jacob’s work is currently on display at the Nonfinito Gallery in New York, if you’re passing.
More here.
A huge chocolate-covered crystallised candy ‘geode’ made by baking and pastry student Alex O’Brien Yeatts and cake decorator Abby Lee Wilcox.
While they’re vague on the methodology, it’s clear thaNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM
By selectively manipulating the pH gradient of liquids in which barium carbonate crystals were immersed, Harvard researcher Wim L. Noorduin was able to grow the crystals into miniature flower shapes by laying down successive layers of silica, which he then photographed with a scanning electron microscope.
It’s witchcraft basically.
The colours are false – generated by the electron microscope. Here’s an uncoloured image.
Still witchcraft.
The nice people at Bytesize Science explain the chemical genesis of the snowflake: water molecules bonding around cloud-borne dust particles in hexagonal networks.
If you don’t mind.