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Re: Diamond shaped crystals in gut squashes
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>Doing some microscope testing of bee gut squashes à la ziploc bag, and
>noticed some diamond shaped crystals.  They seem to be fairly common, in
>about every third or fourth field of view at 400x.  Anyone know what they
>are? 

It looks like calcium oxalate dihydrate.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0085253815306967

Gustav Palan

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