I saw a picture of sand under a microscope. It looked like beautiful tiny shells and even little starfish. But sand looks like brown sugar to me… why is it so similar looking in a huge group? Are all of the beautiful colors seen under the microscope some special sort of sand they are only using for photography?
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When you look at it without the microscope, you’re seeing hundreds to thousands of grains at a time. All the little unique features get averaged out, and you just see…sand. Look up pictures of beaches with different colored sand to see how different minerals can cause sand to look all different colors. I visited a green sand beach in Hawaii, and most of the sand is made up of olivine, a green stone. It definitely looked very different, even at the large scale, than most beaches.
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