Some research images, stuff that is so hydrophobic it kicks itself out of solution as quickly as possible. So fast it doesn't have any structure- an amorphous phase. Nothing happens to it, so it builds up, but eventually some of it develops a structure- some crystals- and it breaks up. The whole thing took about 5 minutes to happen.
"Just a little meta-stable amorphous phase, nothing to worry about... "
"Ah! He's brought a friend, or grown..."
"Space..."
"Now that is just psychedelic "
"It's OK, looks like it is breaking up into crystals, fine ordered members of society"
Collected the images with a microscope submerged in a beaker of my1 solution and I2 dumped in some acid to get the thing to come out of solution.
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1It is a chemical I used in my PhD research
2By "I," I mean Barbara did the experiments
