What is in your kitty litter

Posted by Carolyn Nichol, PhD on November 20, 2009 at 3:03am
Diatomaceous earth is a common material that we buy in bulk and put into our pool filters and kitty litter. If you thought it was just dirt take a close look. We are mining fossils; an antique algae that looks like a nanomachine.

This image was taken on an uncoated sample in a Hitachi TM-1000 SEM for a RIce University BIoNanotechnology Class
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