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Mysterious Creature from Stanford Fountain

| Tue Aug 15 51324 19:26:40 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)



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I took a drop of water from the fountain in front of the Green Library and observed it under the foldscope with dark filed. The dark filed image was by adding another lens between the light and the sample. Surprisingly I found this golden creature which may be a unicellular organism due to its size.

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The mysterious creature captured under the foldscope. The image was take by an iPad.

The scale bar was estimated via an image of the 5 μm nylon filter (in the foldscape toolkit) as shown below. I averaged over 10 holes to get the length.

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The image of the 5 μm nylon filter.


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Type of Sample
unknown
Foldscope Lens Magnification
140x

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