Sunday, November 26, 2017

Holiday Photos

What if people sent electron microscope pictures instead of holiday cards?  I guess it wouldn't be quite as nostalgic and you wouldn't see how much your cousins have changed in that year that they were off at college.  However, electron microscope images are super cool. Below is a cool SEM image of a snowflake.


Here is a cool TEM image of a small pox virus.  Remember TEM images are 2-D images of the inside of an object with greater magnification than the SEM.


Your assignment this week is to find one really cool electron microscope image.  It can either be SEM (will be 3-D and show the outside of an object) or TEM (2-D and the inside of an object).  Please put the link in your response since blogger won't allow you to insert pictures.  In your response, explain what your image is, what type of microscope, total magnification if possible and why you like it.  Post early, because I don't want any repeats if possible.  So be sure to look at the pictures that have been posted before you.



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  1. My image is a SEM and it shows the cells that make up a rose petal. The total magnification is 1,110x. I chose this because I thought it looked very interesting and I was surprised it was a closer look of rose petals. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwi9trmVytzXAhXCneAKHdHJA9UQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmurry-gans.blogspot.com%2F&psig=AOvVaw1dHhhwddlikktrd6mBJ2un&ust=1511797239503819

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    1. I thought this was a very interesting image. It is very complex, ornate, and fancy!

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  2. http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/312.jpg

    This image is an 1000x zoom-in on a vinyl disc. I like this image because it shows the indents and it caves in. I found this interesting and there is very specific detail.

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  3. https://www3.nd.edu/~kamatlab/images/Facilities/TiO2NTsSrTiO3.png
    This image magnifies a piece of ice under a FE SEM microscope. It is very interesting because the magnification illustrates how fragile, intricate, and ornate ice really is. The total magnification of this image is said to be 20,000x.

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    1. I never really thought what is on my ice if I put it in my drink. I wonder if you could see any bacteria.

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  4. https://whatisaplunk.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/sem1.jpg
    So my picture is from a SEM microscope taken at 525x magnification of a hydrothermal worm. Hydrothermal worms are deep sea creatures that are almost as small as bacterium and hang around hydrothermal vents in the ocean. I like it because it's very detailed in the texture of the skin and the shape of the teeth and spikey things around its mouth. It also looks like it's laughing and is slightly scary so I thought it was a really cool image.

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    1. That is fascinating and gross at the same time.

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  5. https://www.fei.com/image-gallery/
    My picture is from a Quanta SEM Micropscope. The image is of amethyst, being magnified at 5,000x. I liked this image because you can see that there are many thin layers on top of one another that make up the amethyst. I also thought it was interesting to see what amethyst is really formed like inside of the gem.

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  6. https://tysontrepidations.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/spider-under-scanning-electron-microscope.jpg This is an image of a spider under an SEM. I like it because it really excentuates how spiders have hair on them. It also just looks fantastic.

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  7. https://youtu.be/Z9YYjzlMsfE My picture is chocolate found by students at John Hopkins university. In their lab, they use an SEM microscope with a TM of 400-5,000x in the varying pictures. I thought it would be interesting to see what chocolate was made up of and how the sugars had transformed in the making. Seeing how the cocoa butter and sugars assembled around each other in an overlapping, random fashion was super cool. The sugar crystals were so much more complex than I had imagined.

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    1. Wow I was very surprised to see the picture was actually chocolate. That looked very cool and interesting

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    2. That's really cool! There is so much detail in the picture!

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  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggTjmi8BoyA
    This week I watched a video on dirt under a TEM microscope. The total magnification is 5000. I chose dirt to look at because I wanted to know what the little specs actually look like. In the video is shows the dirt as 2D and that's why the microscope was a TEM

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  9. http://semoscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Semsocope-Desktop-SEM-nanofiber-image-5000.jpg
    The image I found was a SEM photograph of nano fiber.What sticks out about the photo is that it really looks like angel hair pasta at 5000x magnification.

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  10. https://ag.purdue.edu/arp/Microscopy/PublishingImages/FFT-gold.jpg I chose this picture because it looked really cool. but i think it looks like a star and if you look at the measurement on it is billions of times smaller than a star.

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  11. http://www.eyeofscience.de/en/technology/
    This image is of magnesium mono peroxy phthalate hexahydrate (MMPP). The image shows crystals from aqueous solution. It's used in surface disinfectants. The image is under an SEM microscope and the total magnification is 160x. I chose this image because I thought it was interesting looking.

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  12. My image was a growing diamond. I figured, whats the one thing that's really expensive, but small enough to be put in a microscope? (it was either this, or a nano guitar)(SEM-5,000x(?))
    https://www.nature.com/articles/srep04581/figures/2

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  13. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjXw8P8uubXAhUH1oMKHaFkDmMQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fespn%2Fphotos%2Fgallery%2F_%2Fid%2F9130451%2Fimage%2F1%2Fbaseball-close-calls&psig=AOvVaw1eooP-2GLuWTIzVHi-ii5c&ust=1512136873734344
    This image is a baseball stitch under a SEM microscope. I chose this picture because I thought it was cool and I like baseball.

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  14. http://remf.dartmouth.edu/Blood_cells_SEM/images/03%20BC5-23-08-2.jpg
    This is a SEM image of human blood. I like this image because you can not only see the red blood cells, but also the white blood cells and platelets. The total magnification on this image is 5,000x, which is shown in the micrometers!

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  15. http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/99.jpg This picture is of Velcro under a SEM microscope at 15x magnification. I thought it was very interesting because you can see how the Velcro works, little hooks connects to smaller strings and thats what makes them stick.

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    1. This image is really cool I see what you mean by it showing how it works.

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    2. I didn't know Velcro looked like that

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    3. Thats actaully very interesting how velcro works

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    4. That's cool how there is hooks

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  16. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/33/23/1e/33231ea08f77d00a7f403adf6f7eaab1--life-science-science-ideas.jpg
    This picture is of a wolf spider. I chose this image because of the precise details, it is really interesting.

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    1. Wow that's creepy! I agree with you though, it's definitely very interesting when you examine all the details.

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  17. https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&rlz=1CADEAC_enUS761US762&tbm=isch&q=sem+images&chips=q:sem+images,g_7:insect&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1npzQzObXAhWoYt8KHY5kAwsQ4lYINygC&biw=1366&bih=630&dpr=1&surl=1#imgrc=cvOgQsKqa2J6eM:

    The picture is of a bug through sem, it was cool to see an insect so small to the human eye, appear so big. I didn't realize how much detail goes into an insect.

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  18. My picture is of a Moths eye from a SEM microscope. I chose this image because it looked cool and not really what we think an eye would look like. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/peering_into_the_micro_world.html

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  19. https://whatisaplunk.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/sem1.jpg

    This is an sem image of a worm found at the bottom of the ocean. It is noticably a SEM image due to the 3D aspect of the image. I like this image because it’s not something you think about when you see a worm. There is so much more to creatures that can’t be seen with the naked eye. This is a prime example.


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  20. https://www.aif.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/SandDollar_BSE_500x.jpg
    This is an image of a sand dollar underneath a Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope. I chose this picture because my partner and I looked at a sand dollar underneath a stereoscope during the lab and it looked very cool, but after seeing this image I realized how much detail was within a sand dollar.

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  21. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjWz9OU0ObXAhWBc98KHRavBBQQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyimages.com%2Fdetail%2Fphoto%2Fscanning-electron-microscope-image-of-crack-high-res-stock-photography%2F128565440&psig=AOvVaw0ZpLpTHNXKVZpgoRBhQuJu&ust=1512142468707333
    This image is of crack cocaine under a 284x magnification. I thought it was interesting because its just powder to the naked eye and then up close it's a lot more than just powder.

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  22. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/91/e3/95/91e395692d4f4e4984093d540cb993bd--bird-bones-scanning-electron-microscope.jpg
    It is seen under a scanning electron microscope. The magnification is 15x when printed in 10cm wide. I chose this because it looks like a giant playground or maze.

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  23. This is an Electron Microscope image of marshmallows and chocolate. That’s what you would think it is, but it’s not. This a 20x magnification of salt and pepper (type of microscope unknown)! Oddly, this is what we eat everyday! I find it amazing that this is true. I wonder what else looks nothing like we think it would under an electron microscope.

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    1. I saw this one too!i actually thought the salt was marshmallows when i first saw it as well.

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  24. https://i.pinimg.com/236x/57/3e/1e/573e1e8bc0219403e72b822daff529bf--scanning-electron-micrograph-electron-microscope.jpg

    This is an image of pollen I thought this was interesting because all the little particles that are in pollen are crazy.

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  25. This is an electron microscope image of human eyelashes. I chose this because all the time when you are looking into a microscope, you see the shadow of your eyelash. But, I didn't know what it actually looked like underneath the microscope. This is under an electron microscope with an unknown total magnification


    https://www.google.com/search?q=human+eyelashes+under+microscope&safe=active&rlz=1CADEAC_enUS762US764&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=211JUrqFdxxelM%253A%252C-THxN2pgZhkFfM%252C_&usg=__H71cvh7nKwtIBInrAsW3UZ3eSR0%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis_Z7F6OfXAhWe3oMKHX1JAt0Q9QEIKDAA&surl=1#imgrc=211JUrqFdxxelM:

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  26. http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/710.jpg
    This is an image of a guitar string viewed with a SEM microscope under a magnification of 60x. I like this image because it shows the immense detail a guitar string has, even though it appears to be very simple to the naked eye. It makes you wonder what kind of intricate details other things may have.

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  27. https://www.troab.com/13-food-substances-look-completely-different-electron-microscope/ (number 6) SEM/unstated magnification. I chose this picture because I was shocked to find the little bugs live on the surface of straw berry's.

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  28. http://www.topdesignmag.com/25-amazing-electron-microscope-images/

    This is a computer hard disk read/write head. This was taken on a electron microscope but the type in unknown. It was taken at 20x and the size was 6x7cm> I chose this picture because it amazed me at how clear the picture was and I wasnt sure what the different colors were.

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  29. https://tedkinsman.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Scanning-Electron-Microscopy/G0000p4hOdSZN6V8/I00006gWnO5Qd1ic
    I chose a crack in tooth enamel magnified 500x under an SEM microscope. I thought it was interesting because teeth appear so together but there could be something on the tooths surface.

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  30. http://microvisionlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/Linda%20P%20hair,%20750X,%20a.jpg This is a strand of hair magnified 750x under a scanning electron microscope. I think the little flakes that show it isn't a singular solid piece are very interesting.

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  31. https://www.google.com/search?q=flower+under+microscope&safe=active&rlz=1CADEAC_enUS761US761&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhqL6P_OfXAhWsUd8KHW3pCIIQ_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=726&surl=1#imgrc=oSo6Z9AMvEn2CM:

    This is an image of a flower under the microscope at 400x magnification. I like the image because i really like flowers. it is SED because it shows the outside of the image

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  32. This is a picture of a snow crystal taken with an LT-SEM (low power electron microscope). I like this picture because it doesn't look like it's real, it almost looks like something off the set of a really old Sci-Fi movie. http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/microscopic-snow-crystals-1.jpg?w=800&h=645

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  33. The image I saw was the eye of a threading needle under a SEM microscope. Its total magnification was x16 at 35mm size. I chose this because I found it fascinating how I could see all the little individual threads of the string. http://www.topdesignmag.com/25-amazing-electron-microscope-images/

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  34. This Is an Imiage of different types of pollen, I chose this image because i thought it looked cool. This is a SEM image taken at 500x. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Misc_pollen.jpg/800px-Misc_pollen.jpg

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  35. https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_4/illustr/s4_1_1b.html

    This is a SEM Microscope and the picture of a tiny worm in the ocean.

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  36. http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/10/109410-004-B2D57355.jpg This is an image showing a magnified version of pollen from the Cineraria plant under a Scanning Electron Microscope at 1,500X magnification. I chose this image because you can see all the little divots and bumps on this plant and imperfections on the pollen which you don’t usually think about.

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  37. http://www.vcbio.science.ru.nl/images/tem-plant-cell.jpg
    This is a picture of a plant cell. I chose this image because it is really interesting, and we are learning about it right now.

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  38. This is an Electron Microscope (SEM). It is an image of uranium. The total magnification for this image is 613x. I like this photo because you wouldn't expect some time of rock to come out looking like this under a microscope and it looks very cool and eye popping. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjT1KfTgOnXAhVl54MKHVaNA0YQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fbionerd%2F5202601154&psig=AOvVaw2vpzOpoUDB-WYC6VrUqL4p&ust=1512224223520663

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  39. http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep08/tk-sem.html
    This is an image of a hibiscus flower on a TEM microscope. It doesn't have a classified magnification. I chose this image because it was really cool to see the close up of a flower and it looked almost soft and fluffy. I thought it was really pretty.

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  40. http://wormclassroom.org/files/worm/images/TEM.preview.jpg This is a image of a C.elegans Embryo with a total magnification of 5000x at the 2 cell stage. I saw this image and tough it looked really cool and interesting because we are in the cell unit.

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