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Biological Chemistry
Chemistry In Pictures
Chemistry in Pictures: Creepy crawlin’ kid
by Alexandra A. Taylor
May 26, 2020
Jorge Salazar, a science writer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and his six-year-old son Gael have been busy hunting and illuminating bugs with Gael’s black light. They caught the millipede shown here in their backyard and identified it as Eurymerodesmus melacis. According to the elder Salazar, the pterins and coproporphyrins in the millipede’s cuticle are what cause it to fluoresce. Gael enjoys using his black light on scorpion skins as well. “He’s obsessed with it,” his father says.
Submitted by Jorge Salazar
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