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Home Remodel Dust Under the Microscope

Wallboard Debris and Sawdust

The particle on the left is gypsum from the wallboard. The bright particles at upper center is a fragment of wood sawdust. Gypsum in wallboard tends to be crypto-crystalline. Crystals will grow in the leachate from wallboard.

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