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Incandescent alchemy | by Tom Anderson
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Incandescent alchemy

Inside Roger Hiorns' Seizure, a titanic manmade geode comprising a council flat internally encrusted with copper sulphate, where there are incandescent bulbs in close proximity to the crystals, their heat has driven out the water of crystallisation, leaving a white powdery splotch of anhydrous copper sulphate. And that, bitches, is science.

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Taken on August 16, 2009