Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/glassy carbon

Glassy carbon

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Original – A large sample of glassy carbon with a weight ca. 570 g, additional a 1 cm3 graphite cube for comparison

Reason

a good image with a very good view of the glassy properties of the glassy carbon

Articles in which this image appears

Glassy_carbon, Carbon, Allotropes_of_carbon

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Sciences/Materials_science

Creator

Alchemist-hp

• Support as nominator – Alchemist-hp (talk) 20:19, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
• Comment - Is it just me, or does this look like it's reflecting a book? (I've added a note). This is a very good shot, just curious about what looks like lines of text. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:29, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

• No, this are structures of a conchoidal fracture. It's typical for glas materials. And this image was made in a locked light box, another image: a shoot under UV-light and the result.. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 02:35, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

• Alright then. Interesting patterns, I must say. Support. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:43, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

• Support. That's a good looking rock. Rreagan007 (talk) 05:59, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support great! --Brackenheim (talk) 21:09, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support I don't think I've ever seen a bad image from you. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 07:18, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

  Thanks :-) --Alchemist-hp (talk) 11:14, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Samsara (FA • FP) 04:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Glassy carbon and a 1cm3 graphite cube HP68-79.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:20, 14 August 2014 (UTC)