The beach sands collected from Clearwater beach contains many transparent crystals. These crystals are very hard. Rather than being grinded and polished into rounded shape. They seems to maintain the original shape.
The Beach Sand Collected from the Clear Water Beach Contains many different types of Sands
I put them in the homemade polarized light microscope. The color of the crystal turns into brilliant colors due to the deflection of light by the irregular shape of the sand. The color pattern is very much like the color of the lace agate’s quartz under the polarized light microscope.
(The analyzer polarized film is removed)
The above picture was taken with Canon EOS T1i camera in manual mode. The camera was attached to the microscope with a 0.5 X reduction adapter.
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