Sunday, November 17, 2013

Say "Cheese"

For week two of our unit on Microscopes, Cells and Cell Transport, we are going to have another contest.  Your challenge is to find the coolest electron microscope image and decide if it is from an scanning electron microscope or a transmission electron microscope.  Be sure to give the image URL and tell which type of microscope was used in taking the image.

Below is an image of a scanning electron microscope image of the head of a human flea taken by retired scientific photographer, Steve Gschmeisser.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7397841/Creepy-crawlies-Amazing-Scanning-Electron-Microscope-pictures-of-insects-and-spiders.html

Here is a transmission electron microscope image of a human liver cell taken by Dennis Kunkel.  He even offers electron microscope calendars...how cool is that.

http://www.denniskunkel.com/

I will keep track of the favorites.  Whoever posts the image first gets credit for finding the image.  Good luck.

As Willie Nelson said, "the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."  
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  1. AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 10:29 AM

    http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/insidethecell/images/ch3_nerveend.jpg

    This is an image of a typical nerve ending that has been broken open to allow view of small blobs called vesicles(the blue and orange forms). They hold chemicals that pass electrical messages to and from the brain. The picture was taken with a scanning electron microscope, and it is shone as a 3D image.

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    1. AnonymousNovember 19, 2013 at 3:34 PM

      That looks so cool, like someone took a chunk out of a little tiny planet!

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  2. AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 1:53 PM


    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02477/broccoli_2477370k.jpg

    It's a scanning electron microscope image of a broccoli floret, but it looks like a tulip!

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    1. Mrs. MazzucaNovember 18, 2013 at 5:03 PM

      Amazing. I would have never thought that was broccoli.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 3:40 PM

    http://izismile.com/2010/10/15/amazing_scanning_electron_microscope_pictures_24_pics-5.html

    This is a picture of bacteria on the human tongue. It is from a scanning electron microscope.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 4:33 PM

    http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/peering_into_the_micro_world.html
    Has several cool pictures

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  5. AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 7:03 PM

    http://cdn.onelargeprawn.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/FEI_SEM_images.jpg

    Picture of a Hydrothermal Worm, taken by a scanning electron microscope.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 8:46 AM

    https://www.google.com/search?q=scanning+electron+microscope+images&rlz=1CASMAE_enUS563&espv=210&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=HkSKUrD6CsPiyAHv2YFA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=656#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=49GSyeOrzcleeM%3A%3BpaBjLI3bxG2OOM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.atclabs.com%252FPhotos%252Fmite.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.atclabs.com%252FSEM.htm%3B1024%3B841
    This is a mite. Magnified by the Scanning Electron Microscope!

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    1. Mrs. MazzucaNovember 18, 2013 at 5:02 PM

      I think this might be an easier way to get to your image:
      http://www.atclabs.com/SEM.htm

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  7. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 2:08 PM

    This is a picture of eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin by using a scanning electron microscope. It's really cool! And i would have never thought that eyelashes looked like this!

    http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101015/640/amazing_scanning_electron_640_03.jpg

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  8. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 2:57 PM

    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02477/sugar_2477365k.jpg

    This is a picture of several pieces of sugar under a scanning electron microscope

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  9. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 3:04 PM

    This is a Butterfly Tongue Under a Scanning Electron Microscope
    http://tysontrepidations.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/butterfly-tongue-under-scanning-electron-microscope.jpg

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  10. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 3:41 PM

    http://tysontrepidations.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/say-cheese-for-scanning-electron-microscopy/

    This link has a few different pictures including a spider, butterfly tongue, pollen, and a few more.

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    1. Mrs. MazzucaNovember 18, 2013 at 4:59 PM

      Cool! Your vote goes for Conor, because he posted this 37 minutes before you did.

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  11. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 3:44 PM

    http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/peering_into_the_micro_world.html#photo4

    The fourth photo down on the page is that of a black walnut tree leaf. This photo has to be from a scanning electron microscope because the leaf itself is not transparent, and it is a 3-D image. Therefore, electron beams are bounced off of the leaf instead of being transmitted through the leaf, in which case the leaf would have to be 2-D and transparent.

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  12. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 4:46 PM

    http://www.palaminerals.com/images/mineral_news/crystal_duo_lrg.jpg

    http://www.palaminerals.com/news_2013_v1.php

    This is an ice crystal, taken with a SEM.

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  13. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 5:44 PM

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7924099/Creepy-crawlies-Amazing-Scanning-Electron-Microscope-pictures-of-insects-and-spiders.html

    From first glance, this cartoonish-looking creature looks fake. It's actually a close up of the bluebottle fly larva! This photo was taken from using a scanning electron microscope.

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  14. AnonymousNovember 19, 2013 at 4:24 AM

    http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/images-inside-human-body-images/8292?image=5

    Here is a transmission electron microscope image of some stained retinal blood vessels emerging from the black colored optic disk. This photo was taken by Freya Mowatt, from Wellcome Images.

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    1. Mrs. MazzucaNovember 19, 2013 at 11:54 AM

      I flipped through the 15 images on the slide show. These are some great microscope images from inside the human body.

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  15. AnonymousNovember 19, 2013 at 7:34 AM

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkpicturegalleries/9862970/Food-under-the-microscope-scanning-electron-micrographs-of-foodstuffs.html?frame=2477392

    This is just a simple blueberry, but you wouldn't know, because it looks nothing like it! This website has tons of different SEM microscope images that are crazy but cool to look at!

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  16. AnonymousNovember 19, 2013 at 12:38 PM

    http://www.anonymousartofrevolution.com/2012/10/two-day-old-zebrafish-larvae-as-seen.html
    This is an image of two-day old zebrafish larvae, taking by a Scanning Electron Microscope. They look interesting, and imagine how small they would be at two days old! They also have strange faces(if that's what it is..).

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  17. AnonymousNovember 19, 2013 at 3:32 PM

    A cool scanning electron micrograph of the head of a maggot of a bluebottle fly. The maggots of this fly can be used used medicinally to clean wounds. Pretty neat, huh?
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7924099/Creepy-crawlies-Amazing-Scanning-Electron-Microscope-pictures-of-insects-and-spiders.html

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  18. AnonymousNovember 19, 2013 at 4:12 PM

    Here is a picture of a piece of dust really close up!

    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01734/micro-dust_1734834i.jpg

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  19. AnonymousNovember 19, 2013 at 7:39 PM

    http://cdn2.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2013/02/146.jpeg

    This is a needle and thread... okay I've never been much of a prodigy at sewing but i'm more interested now knowing thread is that many little strings!

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  20. AnonymousNovember 20, 2013 at 8:04 AM

    This isn't what you would think a typical strawberry would look like under an SEM. When I first saw this with out seeing what it was I thought it was an egg attached to something and not a seed on a strawberry.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkpicturegalleries/9862970/Food-under-the-microscope-scanning-electron-micrographs-of-foodstuffs.html?frame=2477397

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  21. AnonymousNovember 20, 2013 at 2:06 PM


    http://carenalpertfineart.com/gallery.html#14

    This is a picture of a POP-TART using a Scanning Electron Microscope!!!
    This was taken by Caren Alpert and the magnification is 450 times!

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  22. AnonymousNovember 20, 2013 at 2:45 PM

    http://blog.targethealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/20090522-1.jpg
    A cool SEM image of a strawberry!

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  23. AnonymousNovember 20, 2013 at 6:10 PM

    After seeing this microscopic image on the website "Tumblr", I had to share it with my fellow classmates! This picture of a hydrothermal worm is found with a FEI Quanta SEM microscope. Seeing this worm not under microscope, looks harmless, but this picture makes it look like a beast!
    (The image provided is from a Tumblr post, that's why there are words)
    http://imgfave.com/view/3437568

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  24. AnonymousNovember 20, 2013 at 7:10 PM

    This is a picture of flower pollen under a SEM microscope.

    http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/flower-pollen-sem-susumu-nishinaga.jpg

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  25. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 5:46 AM

    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/sem-gallery/?pid=1221
    This is a scanning electron microscope.
    This is a picture of a Solitary bee. Scary, right? At first I thought it was a spider but then found out it was a bee. Just gives me more reasons to be afraid of them.

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    1. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 4:43 AM

      Ah that looks terrifying! My vote goes here because that face looks like it came straight out of a nightmare.

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  26. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 9:05 AM

    This is a picture of a flower bouquet. Its seen through a Scanning Electron Microscope
    static.ddmcdn.com/gif/scanning-electron-microscope-2.jpg

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  27. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 9:26 AM

    upall.co/electron-microscope-81.php

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    1. Mrs. MazzucaNovember 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM

      Kelly,
      Is this a SEM image or a TEM image? What are we looking at?

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  28. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 11:07 AM

    A beautiful picture of a snow flake under an SEM electron microscope.
    (I know there were some other snow posts but i just think they're so pretty) :)

    http://guydeakinsgardening.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Snow_crystals-electron-microscope.png

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  29. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 11:30 AM

    http://s3-ak.buzzfeed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/7/18/15/enhanced-buzz-31359-1311017790-40.jpg

    This is and SEM image of a chicken embryo.

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  30. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 11:44 AM

    http://i.imgur.com/XdoEQBp.jpg
    Velcro

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  31. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 11:44 AM

    This is a picture of the surface of a microchip under a Scanning Electron Microscope:
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&docid=KvB4233y4v_MJM&tbnid=wULwCuPFJXv29M:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthefunnyinbox.com%2Ftoprted%2Fthe-incredible-microscopic-world%2F&ei=bGKOUpnEIueCyAGomoGgCw&bvm=bv.56988011,d.aWc&psig=AFQjCNElesvY0mrQaY0hhogjqMHpDzWweA&ust=1385149391151424

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  32. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM

    Last picture wasn't SEM or TEM this photo is SEM
    It is a maggot
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7924099/Creepy-crawlies-Amazing-Scanning-Electron-Microscope-pictures-of-insects-and-spiders.html

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  33. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 1:29 PM

    http://legacy.mos.org/sln/sem/tpaper.gif This is toilet paper? Oh. (p.s. this is a scanning electron microscope picture)

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  34. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 1:41 PM

    http://njarb.com/2012/11/100-amazing-electron-microscope-images/p4780052-tongue_surface_sem-spl/

    This is a picture of the tongue under a SEM

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  35. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 1:41 PM

    website = http://science.howstuffworks.com/scanning-electron-microscope3.htm

    This is a flower bouquet from a SEM microscope.

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  36. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 3:20 PM

    http://www.bishopmuseum.org/research/nwhi/images/microscopic_sponge2.jpg
    This is a sponge being scanned. Cool, right?

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  37. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 3:21 PM

    This the end of a tongue of a hummingbird hawkmoth.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/8050581/Microcosmos-scanning-electron-microscope-images-of-insects-household-items-and-human-body-parts.html?image=9

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  38. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 3:46 PM

    this is a TEM picture of criggertet paper it looks cool. http://izismile.com/2010/10/15/amazing_scanning_electron_microscope_pictures_24_pics-15.html

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  39. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM

    Transmission electron microscope image of C. elegant embryohttp://wormclassroom.org/image/transmission-electron-microscope-image-c-elegans-embryo

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  40. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 4:20 PM

    http://remf.dartmouth.edu/Lung_TEM/images/10_Lung_80301_7kX.jpg
    TEM Mouse Lung Tissue

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  41. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 4:21 PM

    http://carenalpertfineart.com/gallery.html#2
    This is a picture of a pineapple leaf. It's seen through SEM

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  42. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 4:34 PM

    I found this website full of amazing SEM (I'm assuming) photographs of the human eye. Who would have known that the very thing we use to look at stuff everyday was so deceiving? The human eye cannot see the beautiful structure of a human eye... How strange.

    http://www.boredpanda.com/extreme-close-ups-of-the-human-eye/

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  43. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 5:01 PM

    http://remf.dartmouth.edu/Juglans_nigra_walnut_SEM_P1/images/02_Walnut_stem_30_002.jpg

    This is a picture of a leaf's stem off of a Eastern Black Walnut Tree. You can see the many different types of tricomes. This is under a scanning electron microscope.

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  44. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 5:15 PM

    This is a Hematite (metal) under a scanning electron microscope.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Hematite_in_Scanning_Electron_Microscope%2C_magnification_200x.GIF

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  45. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 5:17 PM

    http://www.humboldt.edu/biosci/news/New%20Scanning%20Electron%20Microscope%20First%20for%20Humboldt,%20North%20Coast%20-%20Humboldt%20State%20Now.htm This is a scanning election microscope image of a hydro-thermal worm

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  46. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 5:33 PM

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/fei_company/7683167166/
    This is a photo of spider skin under a scanning electron microscope it looks so weeeeeeeird magnified 12000x!

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  47. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 5:54 PM

    http://izismile.com/2010/10/15/amazing_scanning_electron_microscope_pictures_24_pics-10.html

    SEM Picture of a hummingbird hawkmouth's tounge

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  48. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 6:25 PM

    http://www.anonymousartofrevolution.com/2012/10/two-day-old-zebrafish-larvae-as-seen.html This is a picture of two, one day old zebra fish larvae seen through a scanning electron microscope.

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  49. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 7:32 PM

    This is a picture of a nail bed under a scanning electron microscope http://www.psmicrographs.co.uk/_assets/uploads/delaminated-section-of-fingernail--p00398a-m.jpg

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  50. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 8:20 PM

    http://tedkinsman.photoshelter.com/image/I0000bB3s0D0lZuo
    This is an image of a SEM scan of a diamond. This image has a lovely color scheme, which I doubt was planed at the time of the picture, but I find it scientifically beautiful.

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  51. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 8:53 PM

    This is a really cool scanning electron microscope picture of a Gecko's toes. This allows the gecko to climb trees and walls. http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/microangela/mgeckotoes.jpg http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/microangela/gecktoes.htm

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  52. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 4:10 AM

    http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/physics/microscopes/tem/gallery/10.html

    A picture of the virus particles that infect bacteria, taken with a TEM.

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  53. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 4:18 AM

    http://www.humboldt.edu/biosci/news/New%20Scanning%20Electron%20Microscope%20First%20for%20Humboldt,%20North%20Coast%20-%20Humboldt%20State%20Now.htm picture of a flea taken with a scanning electron microscope.

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  54. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 4:38 AM

    This is a SEM picture of butterfly eggs on a rasberry plant!
    http://izismile.com/2010/10/15/amazing_scanning_electron_microscope_pictures_24_pics-20.html

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  55. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 4:38 AM

    http://131.229.88.77/microscopy/courses/semcourse.html

    This is a picture of a fruit fly taken by an SEM microscope. It's amazing to see the detail you would have never guessed was there in such a tiny organism. The image is nearly frightening!

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  56. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 4:39 AM

    This is an SEM picture of butterfly eggs on a rasberry plant!\
    http://izismile.com/2010/10/15/amazing_scanning_electron_microscope_pictures_24_pics-20.html

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  57. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 5:12 AM

    This is the eye of a fruit fly as seen under the scanning electron microscope.
    http://richannel.org/collections/2012/under-the-microscope#/how-tiny-eyes-inspire-technology

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  58. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 5:22 AM

    http://www.pinterest.com/pin/333407178635237341/

    the picture above is the hollow hairs on polar bears this is a SEM microscope picture

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  59. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 6:08 AM

    http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/438.php

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  60. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 6:09 AM

    Electron microscope image of a fly foot

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  61. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 7:46 AM

    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01734/micro-cauliflower_1734850i.jpg

    Cauliflower under a SEM

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  62. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 8:17 AM

    http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/images-inside-human-body-images/8292?image=11

    This is the villi in the small intestine. There's even some food stuck in between some of the folds!

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  63. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 8:23 AM

    http://www.google.com/search?q=sem+of+bed+bug&client=ms-android-virgin-us&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=coOPUuacEoWQqwG0lYDgCg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAA&biw=320&bih=407

    When they say "Don't let the bed bugs bite":

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  64. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 9:04 AM

    scanning electron image of a fish's gill http://www.vcbio.science.ru.nl/en/image-gallery/electron/

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  65. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 9:05 AM

    Scanning microscope picture of a fish's gill http://www.vcbio.science.ru.nl/en/image-gallery/electron/

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  66. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 9:05 AM

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NvH5TOSJh8g/T84ONy4hJcI/AAAAAAAAAHo/zCJlAhb-rSI/s1600/scanning-electron-microscope-images-hair1.jpg

    damaged/split end of a human hair under an electron microscope


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  67. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 9:06 AM

    mine was a scanning electron microscope :)

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  68. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 9:07 AM

    http://www.gizmag.com/moth-eye-biomimicry-safer-x-rays/23206/pictures#1
    SEM microscope. It is a moth's eye

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  69. AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 9:08 AM

    Image of a staple through paper. (SEM)
    http://legacy.mos.org/sln/sem/staple.html

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  70. AnonymousNovember 26, 2013 at 8:14 AM

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/18/hydrothermal-worm-electron-microscope_n_901833.html
    this is a picture of a worms head under an electron microscope

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  71. AnonymousNovember 26, 2013 at 8:35 AM

    An image of a hydrothermal worm viewed from under a scanning electron microscope
    http://www.humboldt.edu/biosci/news/New%20Scanning%20Electron%20Microscope%20First%20for%20Humboldt,%20North%20Coast%20-%20Humboldt%20State%20Now_files/2011-0913-NSFLarge.jpg

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