Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Photos
by Barbara Plowman,
Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, San Francisco
For the Patterns in Nature study group
of YLEM: Artists Using Science and Technology, 5/ 8/05

Several participants brought samples for her to scan.
Click on a picture to see enlargement.
 

tapered oval striped seed
Lettuce seed, 20 X
rounded tip of a wing
Insect wing, 20 X
BumpyPebble
Sandstone, 20 X

 

kidney-shaped seeds with veins
Poppy seeds, 38 X
flower tip with bumpy grains
Daisywith pollen, 120 X maginfication
  
           

leaf-like structures with small grains
Marguerite daisy
with pollen, 140 X
surface with bristles
Insect wing, 144 X
fissured surface
Sandstone, 400 X
round grains with bumps
Pollen, 480 X
intricately folded surface
Pollen, 480 X
  
         
   
 
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