SEM

1. Wiggle my ears
2. Stand on the actual tips of my toes
3. Paint nails better than the nail ladies at the salon
I’ll try and list slightly more interesting/odd things. This may be a 1-2 day only sort of deal….but I’m hoping it might be entertaining at the least.
So, in grad school I had to learn to use a Scanning Electron Microscope. Or SEM for short. Basically, it’s a really strong microscope. I think the order of magnitude is in the micron scale (maybe more….but I wasn’t very good) – the image scale bar goes from 10 – 100 um for my pictures.
You have to make sure the sample is electrically conductive, so you can sputter coat them beforehand if they aren’t.
I think it was a bug and some pollen. How interesting. And there’s your daily dose of science…sorta.

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