Glass Spheres Are Smaller Than Grains of Salt (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Glass Spheres Are Smaller Than Grains of Salt

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Mike Meyer mounted the microtektites on micropaleontology slides, a process that involves licking a paintbrush to pick up the small spheres and place them on dots of glue. 'I did accidentally eat a couple of them,' Meyer said.

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