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Comment by gilleain

Sodium-ammonium tartrate (I remembered what you were talking about, but had to look up the actual chemical!)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9291139/

From that:

"To his surprise, he noticed that each crystal has a tiny facet on one of its edges oriented sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left. He could separate them by hand with a tweezer."

parent gilleain 1 month ago

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