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Ash from an Industrial Fire View through a Microscope

Mineral Filler with Soot from an Industrial Fire

This is a piece of quartz filler with some of the charred polymer still attached. This was from an environmental tapelift collected in a home a few hundred meters (a little over 200 yards) away from a large plumbing warehouse fire.

Transmitted Off Crossed Polarized Light and Reflected Darkfield Illumination

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