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•  Info created and uploaded by Alexander Klepnev, nominated by Yann (talk)
•  Info Sand grains of yellow building sand. Microscope Lumam R-8. EPI lighting. The photo of each grain of sand is the result of multifocal stacking.
•  Support Ordinary subject, but with unordinary point of view. High quality and resolution. -- Yann (talk) 14:12, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
•  Support the edges are bit soft, but nevertheless FP for me. --Ivar (talk) 17:06, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Commonists 17:20, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

• Another sockpuppet of Livioandronico2013. - Benh (talk) 22:20, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Support --Llez (talk) 07:33, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose For a mundane subject like this, the technical quality could be better. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:48, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

• @Charlesjsharp: Mundane? This is sophisticated setup picture, taken with a microscope and multifocal stacking. Certainly not "Mundane". And what's the issue exactly? Yann (talk) 13:36, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

• I described the grains of sand as mundane (=boring). As Ivar has pointed out, the edges are soft. Some grains are soft all over. The point of view of a grain of sand cannot be 'unordinary'. Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:25, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

• See [side discussion]. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:10, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 08:21, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
•  Support per Ivar. Overall both beautiful and instructive. --Aristeas (talk) 08:52, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Fascinating and FP-worthy. -- Radomianin (talk) 22:30, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
•  Question I think this is quite interesting, but is there a typical mineral composition of yellow building sand, or might it be important to know where the sand is from? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:51, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

• Yellow building sand is a generic term for manufactured sand. You will notice that many of the sand grains are the same material. The edges of the grains are all rounded due to the manufacturing process. Nothing like sand from a beach, and hence, I feel this image has minimal EV. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:42, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

• It would be interesting to have a similar image of natural sand, including for comparaison. But this image has high educational value in itself, to show form and colors of manufactured sand grains at the microscopic level. Yann (talk) 19:26, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

• Some of the sand grains are not of the same materials, though. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:59, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

• Yes, it also shows that manufactured sand is not so homogeneous. Yann (talk) 08:36, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 10:19, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
•  Support "I don't like sand ..." But I do like this image. Daniel Case (talk) 23:25, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 8 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--MZaplotnik^(talk) 22:42, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects/Rocks and minerals