[NewCandle] Silver aluminum screening experiment

[Nick Reiter]

Hi Keith and all,

Got some good dendrite pics today.  Amazing, the
infolded fractal landscapes that form in silver
realms:)  I tend to think that some of the growth
betrays subtle alloying from other constituents of the
aluminum.  There will be the delightful heavy
structural cubism of the silver growth (at a micron
level!) but then this will break suddenly into a
fan-like doily of nested fractal triangles and voids. 
Wondrous.  The dendrites probably can never look as
enticing under the SEM as they do waving like trees in
the liquid medium of their birth - alas.

Photos coming your way in a little while, Keith.

nr

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Adorned in the masters' loving art, She lies;
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