Christopher 3 cats King

Just some dude with a basement full of microscopes and chemicals.

[Christopher 3 cats King @Masterpnside]

Cat pee! Crystallized cat urine from my wee cat Tim, he was kind enough to donate somewhere hidden that I didn't notice until it had evaporated and crystallized on some plastic bags. I then dissolved, recrystallized and viewed under the polarized light 🔬 #sciart #CatsOfTwitter

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@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXSUPER

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Forgotten slides of decaying amino acid crystals. The humidity in the air speeds along the breakdown. #sciart #abstractart

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Viewed at ~100x under polarized light microscopy the birefringent crystals bend the filtered light passing through to make a variety of colors dependent on angle and thickness.

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Crystals formed from forgotten slides of Callus Remover. The active ingredient is Potassium Hydroxide, KOH or caustic potash. Prominently featured in fight club to give a nasty burn to Edward Norton's character and to make soap.
#SciArtSeptember #sciart #Chemistry

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Crystals of sulfamic acid under polarized 🔬 100x. It has many uses in production of artificial sweeteners and therapeutic drugs. Also used as a cleaning and descaling agent, safer than hydrochloric acid, such as Lime-a-away #sciart #SciArtSeptember #SciComm

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Acetylsalicylic Acid or Aspirin crystals growing on a bed of molten menthol under polarized🔬 Felt like my workshop was coated in Vicks. Unrefined in chewed willow leaves, #Aspirin has been used as #painkiller and a fever/inflammation reducer for 2400 years. #sciart #drug

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Feathery crystals of Carnosine, Alanine, Glutamine and Taurine again crystallized out of whiskey solution. Seems a hair fell on the slide while it was crystallizing on my hot plate and caused this interesting nucleation pattern. #sciart #Chemistry #sciencetwitter

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Crystallized mixture of salicylic acid and malic acid under polarized light microscopy. Salicylic acid is used as an acne medication, wart and callus remover, malic acid is commonly used as a sour flavoring for foods and candy. #sciart #chemtwitter

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@rattlesnakeguy ~5 seconds, that's a spicy meatball/noodle

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@arrrrstar @dhsimmons1 Thank you, certainly can't say no to Sir Patrick Stewart

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A radial formation of the amino acids Carnosine, Alanine, Glutamine, and Taurine in whisky. When the solution is reduced to a thin film crystals grow outward from nucleation sites, in my house typically dust or cat hair. Polarized light 🔬 #Microscopy #sciencetwitter #CHEMISTRY

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@ivan_amato Thanks Ivan! Hope all is well with you 🙂

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Discovered by Russian chemist Vladimir Gulevich Carnosine is an antioxidant and considered a geroprotector or anti-aging compound as it reduces the telomere shortening rate.

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Carnosine crystals under polarized light microscopy. An amino acid itself made up of the amino acids beta-alanine and histidine, carnosine is highly concentrated in muscle and brain tissues.
#science #ScienceTwitter #sciart #scicomm

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@jd_denn Thanks so much I appreciate it

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Hope everyone is surviving ok. Finally had a chance to work on some new imager so I tried dissolving a slightly different mixture of amino acids in whiskey a friend left in my freezer weeks ago and got some results that I am pretty stoked about. #sciart #chemtwitter

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@GZzyzyx Its the muscle building amino acids Carnosine, Alanine, Glutamine and Taurine dissolved in whiskey & evaporated on a hot plate. When I get the temperature, ratios, and viscosity right aminos form really intricate crystalline films to that glow under polarized light microscopy 😎

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@GZzyzyx Well to be fair life got in the way for a while so I haven't been posting like I used to but thank you so much ☺️

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Skeletal muscles at 400x under polarized light stained with Congo red. Skeletal muscle is made of alternating bands of fibers some of which fluoresce. #science #sciart #histology #microscopy

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@PlasticTasticc Thanks, I'm trying to get back into the creative swing of things

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"Hello darkness my old friend" 🎶 another mixture of crystallized amino acids polarized 🔬 with some additives to alter the viscosity of the mix and a makeshift light retarder to play with the colors and shading. #sciart #chemtwitter #sciencetwitter

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Liquid crystals flowing into a chiral liquid and arranging into a more organized pattern, specifically MBBA into limonene under polarized 🔬. MBBA is a liquid crystal around room temperature, making it useful for #LCD displays #sciart #chemtwitter #artistsontwitter #Microscopy