Did you know the inside of a potato is a world of rainbows? 馃寛馃 @Chlo茅 Savard placed a sliver of potato under the microscope and discovered that under polarized light, potato starch granules glow like tiny bubbles of color. Each rainbow circle you see is a single starch grain packed inside specialized organelles called amyloplasts. The colors appear because starch granules have an organized, semi-crystalline structure. When polarized light passes through them, the light waves split and interfer
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Did you know the inside of a potato is a world of rainbows? 馃寛馃 @Chloé Savard placed a sliver of potato under the microscope and discovered that under polarized light, potato starch granules glow like tiny bubbles of color. Each rainbow circle you see is a single starch grain packed inside specialized organelles called amyloplasts. The colors appear because starch granules have an organized, semi-crystalline structure. When polarized light passes through them, the light waves split and interfer
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