Plastic Microspheres
These particles are from an environmental tapelift
collected in a office building where there was a high volume of
carbonless paper forms. These spheres have a refractive index less than 1.48 as
shown by the shadowing opposite the light source.
Transmitted Crossed Linear Polarized Light with a Red Plate Compensator
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