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Crystals grown on a match tip

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bclaff Forum Pro • Posts: 13,922
Epsom salt and polarization
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You'll also find that epsom salt exhibits birefringence

So try photographic using two polarizers, one between the light and the crystal and another on your lens.

Acetaminophen

Not epsom salt but the same principle. Photographed using a microscope of crystal growing on a glass plate.

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