The amazing and cool photo thread

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I found this on Airliners.net:
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My submission for a photography competition here at the University of Glasgow... my boss has also submitted one of my pictures, so I'll be mad if he wins and I don't :p

Cooling pentanol to well below its melting point creates a highly unstable ‘supercooled’ liquid that is poised to crystallise at any moment. Here, crystals burst forth from two sites causing the growth fronts to crash into each other creating a striking interface. The alignment of molecules in the crystal affects how polarised light is transmitted, producing regions of different colour and intensity. Understanding how liquids become solid is of fundamental importance but the mechanism is yet to be fully understood.
 

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My submission for a photography competition here at the University of Glasgow... my boss has also submitted one of my pictures, so I'll be mad if he wins and I don't :p

Bi-Weekly Photo Comp entry?
 

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