Invisible wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
> 
>> All coated in a thin layer of gold...
> 
> ...like this:
> 
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Golden_insect_01_Pengo.jpg 
> 

Just like that :)

> 
> Actually, apparently you can design a SEM that works without the gold 
> coating, but the resolution is lower. (And you still can't do it with 
> "wet" samples; they must be dried somehow first.)

What was fun was the SEM that they had on exhibit at the Science museum. 
I saw the exhibit after reading the Wikipedia page. Because of that, I 
actually knew where the sample would go... :)


-- 
~Mike

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