LGP25B3 - Microscopic coffee beans!
Jun 08, 2025 • 9:24 AM UTC
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Karthik Agarwal
Hi! I'm a student from India, currently studying in 10th grade (ICSE board).
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Let’s take a look at the coffee beans of the microscopic world!
At 50X magnification, you wouldn’t be able to tell that these periwinkle pollen grains look like coffee beans. In this view, you can see a cluster of these grains with only a few individual grains scattered around. We see the grains’ irregular oval shape and their transparent/translucent coloring.
At 50X magnification, you wouldn’t be able to tell that these periwinkle pollen grains look like coffee beans. In this view, you can see a cluster of these grains with only a few individual grains scattered around. We see the grains’ irregular oval shape and their transparent/translucent coloring.
At 140X magnification, we finally see how these pollen grains resemble tiny coffee beans! The grains have a smooth surface, and have a line running down their centres. This line looks like a furrow or depression of sorts, and it is what gives the pollen grains a coffee bean like appearance!
At 340X magnification, the shape of the grain starts looking more irregular instead of the clean oval shape we could observe earlier. We can see the granular interior of the grain, and the thickenings that the outer wall has developed on either side.
This concludes our exploration into the microscopic coffee bean - the periwinkle pollen grain!
This concludes our exploration into the microscopic coffee bean - the periwinkle pollen grain!
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