Here's what most of the sand in our world looks like.

Petrified polymorphs!

Crystallization

Xray crystallography.

Here's what most of the sand on the world, in our world, looks like.

A tiny wonder.

Crystal structure determination

Gnome Crystal Crystalline Structures Viewer

And why?

We all know what snow is made out of, right.

Bottle broke in the ring.

Polycrystalline vessels.

Back at Cal Tech, he was... you were just the master of crystallography.

Well, crystalline structure's intact.

Display crystal structures

So here's some inorganic life.

He's our lovechild.

And this is what this adventure's really about.

I mean, I do remember things.

These are quartz crystals and feldspar, so most sand in the world on the mainland is made of quartz crystal and feldspar.

Edit and display crystalline structures

We thought we'd just send it to people and see how the molecule behaves.

And so I wired up what's called a load cell.

This is an inorganic tube.

For example, molecular structure.

It's the cirrus cloud, named after the Latin for a lock of hair.

Crystalline and Molecular Structure Visualisation Program

I mean, the work that your company is doing...

I mean, you got... Jesus, you got crystals in here 2 inches, 3 inches long.

A crystal.

Inert nitrogen, high concentration of carbon dioxide crystals, methane...

And it turns out that different things crystallize out at different stages.

A single piece of seamless quartz.

He crystallized salt from seawater.

His wife died leaving behind their two beloved children.

It's a process that not only happens in the biological and chemical world, but is a phenomenon that can be seen from magnets to snowflakes, robotics, social networks, the formations of cities and galaxies, to name just a few.

But it's still extremely dense. It's still extremely dense.

Of course, they're not alive.

You know all about imaging, right, ultrasound imaging.

LCD Number

And not just iridium it's filled with glassy spherules, and it's filled with quartz grains that have been subjected to enormous pressure shock quartz.

That cute baby is the fruit of their love.

I'll just run them very quickly through.

Star sapphires take a week to crystallize properly.

The moisture coming out of the south by midday will push on to the east.