Excellent images.

Dave

Awesome!

Dave

Very impressive stereo!

Dave

Last one! From a melt of Methyl-Sulphonyl Methane (the crystals melt at just above 100 C).
.

Remarkable structures and lovely photos.

Dave

Methyl-Sulphonyl Methane crystals are readily available as a food supplement and are water soluble. When dissolved in warm water and spread on to a slide it recrystallises very quickly forming mostly large and long rod-like crystals. For the first photo I caught them before they grew and in the seco...

Thanks for that Phil.

Nice! Looking at your set up I’m wondering where you put the analyser.

Dave

.
Excellent!

Dave

Thanks Rob, I'm using 60% water 40% Ethanol, 4:1 Beta Alanine to Glutamine, flash freezing then heating. Dave _Z8A1137_2.jpg . This is Glycine and L. Glutamine, the formations were much smaller, all of my photos above were using 4x and 10x objectives, this is using a 20x with coverslip. . 2020-12-24...

Very nice! Great quality video.

Dave

Many thanks for the kind remarks.

Sumguy01 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 18, 2020 10:34 pm

Very nice.
Just ordered some Taurine and will give it a try.
Thanks for sharing
Merry Christmas and happy new year.

I did use Beta Alanine with the Taurine for the last two.

Happy Christmas! And a merry new year!

Thanks!

I just had a go with the amino acid Taurine and it made some interesting patterns too.

Dave


Large version on Flickr .
Large version on Flickr

I bought them on Amazon. They are sold as food supplements and you can get them in small amounts for under $10. Search for Beta Alanine, L. Glutamine, Taurine, Lysine etc.

Dave

Thanks. I managed to get some nice results by experimenting with the mix and process a little. It's hard to squeeze them into the 300k limit so if you want to see them in their full glory they are on my Flickr page. Dave . Large version on Flickr _Z8A0167.jpg . Large version on Flickr 2020-12-14-18....