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Calcium Hydroxide Crystals on a Grain of Sand
Media Details
Created 09/10/2002
Wet mode image of a lime/sand slurry, dried in the ESEM specimen chamber. On the surface of a grain of sand are thin, flat calcium hydroxide crystals, as well as smaller hexagonal crystals, also of calcium hydroxide.
Credits
- Anne Abell , Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas