ะaksSand under a microscope is much more interesting. Only 250x magnification is required...
Erik Schouten 73@Torantino looks like candy ๐
Moon 12
BigD@Torantino And they put cement in that and put it in a wall?
Edge@Torantino @MysticaRose That is fascinating.
March Payne@Torantino It looks like a really fancy Bombay Mix.
Finch@Torantino Fascinating.
axel.@Torantino @Pausanias Haribo Colorado
Loman Brophy@Torantino Crikey, that's amazing!
In my ignorance, I thought sand was virtually entirely made up of ground-up rock!
Bob Downie@LomanB @Torantino
Sand is defined as sedimentary particles in the size range 1/16 - 2mm (Wentworth Scale). There is no specification on what the grains are composed of & in my sand collection (yes really!) I have sands including those made of garnet (pink), olivene (green), magnetite (black), and many made from microfossils. Under a microscope they are all beautiful.
https://www.planetary.org/space-images/wentworth-1922-grain-size
Sand is defined as sedimentary particles in the size range 1/16 - 2mm (Wentworth Scale). There is no specification on what the grains are composed of & in my sand collection (yes really!) I have sands including those made of garnet (pink), olivene (green), magnetite (black), and many made from microfossils. Under a microscope they are all beautiful.
https://www.planetary.org/space-images/wentworth-1922-grain-size
@geomannie @Torantino that definition makes a lot sense of sense. Beautiful.
R. L. Dane 
That chicken-foot shape is really something.
You wouldn't think something that delicate could exist in the wild.
mdhh_usa ๐บ๐ธOkay. That's amazingly cool.
LibertyForward1@Torantino Nature's chex mix
CordeliaAppleb1
LittleScrapsoftheNorth@Torantino ooooooh that is cool
GATEKEEPER@Torantino
That makes me want a microscope...
That makes me want a microscope...
Barbara Hintze@Torantino wow, so beautiful!!
BlackDutchSnark@Torantino itโs so cool!! It looks like pieces of candy
Caddi@johnettesnuggs @Torantino I thought that it was Yorkshire mixture (a sort of spicy cough mixture sweets).
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Aviva Gary
ichbinLauter@Torantino Haribo Colorado.
Goldfish ๐ @Torantino love this. More...more....
Simon and/or Garfunkel@Torantino Iโve always wanted to do this! So beautiful.
Peter Roopnarine@Torantino cool! Obviously marine sand, and I can spot at least five different phyla in there.
Soozcat@Torantino ...and alla sudden you have a Dale Chihuly art installation
Stephen2713@Torantino Fascinating! I thought it was some chocolates at first.
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen@Torantino Looks like candy.
LilGrimm