This is citric acid, a common food additive, photographed in crystallized form


These are attempts to create art from chemistry. I have crystallized various chemicals and try to paint with the crystals, photographing the resulting images using a microscope.


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Photo credit: © Henri Koskinen / Alamy / Afripics
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