Mink Fur - Prized by many for its beautiful rich fur, the mink coat is composed of mixture of hair sizes and textures. The mink is a semi-aquatic carnivorous mammal related to the weasel. Widely bred on farms for its thick rich brown fur, the mink is native to North America and Europe. It is important to note that these samples were gathered from a harsh lunar environment that included wildly fluctuating temperatures in an almost complete vacuum, dangerous solar radiation, and the uncertainty of return to Earth due to equipment failure. Mosquito Head and Proboscis - The business end of a male mosquito is captured with an Olympus digital camera under darkfield illumination.
Mosquitoes are insects belonging to the Diptera order, along with their cousins, the true flies.
They have two wings and their mouthparts form a long piercing-sucking proboscis, although in male mosquitoes the mouthparts are not suitable for piercing skin. Nitrogen heterocyclic polymers generally offer high heat resistance, good mechanical property retention, excellent wear resistance, and superior thermal insulation. Typical applications include vacuum tips, wafer carriers, contact seals, insulator bushings, thermal isolators, and guide rollers. Solution of the diffraction patterns revealed the presence of an icosohedral symmetry composed of a series of pentagonal and hexagonal shapes. Since then, many stable and meta-stable quasicrystals have been synthesized.