Can ya tell wut it iz yut?
 

Many years ago on a board far, far, away one the posters was a keen photographer and started doing a quiz of everyday objects seen in close up, or from odd angles like BigV has done here.
As he ran out of steam I was inspired to use my powers only for good and do much the same thing with an electron microscope.

Since BigV's thread I have tried to dig out the files to post up here for your amusement, but so far have drawn a blank, which is odd because we never delete anything, but they have cryptic names to reduce cheating.

I just noticed that the original image is sitting here on this computer, so here it is. At this moment in time I don't have the succeedeing pictures getting lower in magniification, showing more of the object so I might give clues with sufficient inducement.:p

A penny. How come you have so many EM pics?

An aspirin tablet.

And what was that other thing you posted a week or two before? It was all fuzzy in the middle.

It must be somethig to do with those big machine thingies he plays with all day... ;)

Something made of metal.

A breadbox (well, *my* breadbox is made of metal, anyway).

No guesses, just to tell you that I smiled at the Rolf ref.
Good on ya.

Nerd alert!!! lol! (nerds are hot)

It is a hair strand?

:D
It's you or DanaC I don't think he was big in OZ.

So, Merc is in the county, Labrat is in the Ball Park, but it's not a penny.

Elspode, our Breadbox is also metal, but it's got nothing to do with this quiz.

You don't have an SEM in the garage? Neither do I, but I know people who do :3_eyes:.
I just became President of the Michigan Microscopy society.

Lot of shrinkage in that snowy state?

I'm with LabRat on the coin guess.

A milled piece of jewlery.

It's a coin, but can you tell which one, it's going to be a lot easier for US dwellars ;)

What is the picture of specifically

The top of Washington's head on a quarter.

Sweet, Beest. I'd love to chat more about microscopy sometime. My specialty is confocal, with just a dash of two-photon for good measure.

BTW, the exact origin of that pic is the top of the eagles head, and bottom of the N in "UNUM" on the back of an old school US quarter. The divot is the eagles eye.

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