Explore the materials around you.

Look closer, identify materials, and test how they behave.

Room 8-102A · 8 AM–midnight, daily

A closer look

Angular diamond grains embedded in a metal matrix, seen with an optical microscope.

What makes a sharpening stone abrasive?

Diamond grains in a metal matrix.

Electron microscope view of a single diatom from pool filtration material.

What’s hiding in pool-filter powder?

Fossil diatoms, seen with an electron microscope.

Fine acrylic yarn fibers viewed with oblique illumination in an optical microscope.

What does yarn look like up close?

Acrylic fibers under an optical microscope.

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