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This is great!!! Diatoms are one of those cool little facets of nature that I would hazard most people don't know about.

My favorite images of them are from electron microscopes. They look like biological crystals or something.

https://www.google.com/search?q=diatom+sem&udm=2

I used to have a link to a collection of them but can't find it. Yes this is a pinterest link lol

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/beautiful-sem-image-of-a-diato...

While you're at it, check out snowflakes under a SEM.

https://www.google.com/search?q=snowflake+sem&udm=2




Along a similar vein (though not diatoms), I must recommend Art Forms in Nature by Ernst Haeckel.


Ernst Häckel created some of the most beautiful art ever and a conversation about his work is funnily enough how this whole little diatom post project got started :)


I think a lot of people are familiar with diatomaceous earth, though maybe not what's in it.


Yep!!! I'd heard of it for years and it blew my mind when I realized they were connected.




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