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Agglomerated Soot from an Industrial Fire View through a Microscope

Agglomerated Soot from an Industrial Fire

This is a collection of agglomerated soot particles from an large plumbing warehouse fire. The elongated black particle center right edge is a tire wear particle resing on another agglomerated soot particle that apears as a tail to the tire wear. This was from an environmental tapelift collected in a home a few hundred meters (a little over 200 yards) away from the fire and about a month after the fire.

Transmitted Off Crossed Circular Polarized Light and Reflected Darkfield Illumination

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