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Wildfire Ash Under the Microscope

Wildfire Ash

This is from an environmental tapelift collected in the living room of a home exposed to a fire in Southern California. This type of illumination brings our structure difficult to see with brightfield illumination. Some regions of char still remain on this particle of ash.

Transmitted Apofocal Illumination

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