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Gatlinburg TN Wildfire Through the Microscope

Ash, Char, and Glass Fiber

This is from an environmental tapelift collected after the Gatlinburg Fire of 2016. This shows ash (lower and upper left) and a fragment of charred bark (black out of focus). The other major particle is from a yellow glass fiber thermal blanket.

Transmitted Off Crossed Circular Polarizers

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