California Chaparral Smoke
This is from an environmental tapelift collected
in a home in Lancaster, California. The bright particle
upper-right of center is a quartz grain with burnt clay on its surface. The particle
at lower-right is a natural hematite grain. A collection
of mold spores are at left center.
Transmitted Off Crossed Circular Polarized Light and Reflected Darkfield Illumination
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