What Would You Stick Under A Scanning Electron Microscope? [Qotd]

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http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_mic2.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/mic2.png)Here's some tasty-looking hard candy. And here's that same tasty-looking hard candy scanned by an SEM. Tuns out that there's a company offering to stick almost anything under an electron microscope (http://gizmodo.com/tag/electronmicroscope/) and we can't help but wonder: What to pick?
SEM Elemental Analysis company ASPEX is offering this great service where people can submit their own samples to be viewed under a scanning electron microscope. They even post results—like these—on the site:

Now, back to the big question: What would you want to see scanned by an SEM? [Aspex (http://aspexcorp.com/updates/sem-image-gallery-by-aspex-send-us-your-sample/) via Maria Popova (http://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/10240166872)]


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