Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Yttrium sublimed dendritic and 1cm3 cube.jpg

Yttrium
Voting period ends on 15 Jul 2010 at 23:54:30 (UTC)
 * Reason:Another fine example of Alchemist-hp's work; I like this one's interesting growth patterns.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Yttrium, Group 3 element
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Sciences/Materials science
 * Creator:Alchemist-hp


 * Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:54, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support, fantastic. J Milburn (talk) 00:29, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support (*sigh*) Another one from Alchemist. Why don’t we give this guy a perpetual-FP license? Good work, Mr. Alchemist. Greg L (talk) 00:30, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support I can't even imagine how much all these samples cost, your access to them and willingness to photograph them for us is such an invaluable service I can't even express in words how grateful we are. — raeky ( talk 01:24, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * There's probably at most 85 elements that one could practically photograph (Francium and higher are very reactive and/or radioactive, and Technetium is very, very rare. We have 14 featured pictures of elements under Materials science, and Platinum under Geology (as the nugget happens to be natural). Alchemist-hp has created all of these. That's amazing, and I'm eyeing several more, like Scandium which are up to the same quality. He is probably one of the most important creators of scientific content on Wikipedia. [Not to deny other good work - Noodle snacks, for example, has a lot of amazing mineral photos; however, Alchemist-hp completely dominates this particular niche - over 1/6th of all photographable elements have featured pictures by him, and the number is set to increase. Noone else even has one.] Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:47, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm sure his samples are extraordinarily expensive, they're all very high purity and some of these rare earths, like this one, is very hard to purify. I hope we eventually get all 85 of those as FP's. Would be invaluable to the encyclopedia. Would be nice if some of the radioactives are featured too, but that could be difficult to do. And of the naturally occurring elements, we'll never get a nice lump of Astatine, any picture showing a quantity of Astatine would be FP worthy for sure, regardless of quality. — raeky ( talk 01:53, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Forgot Astatine, and Polonium is probably highly restricted. Plus, I thought we had one of Radon, but we don't (just a photoshopped speculative image)... so reduce my count to 82. We might get one or two of the radioactives on top of that, but if we ever had those 82 featured, it would be an incredible achievement =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 05:26, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Really love the coiling crystal tendrils on the bottom left. --I′d※&lt;3※Ɵɲɛ (talk) 01:45, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support -- George Chernilevsky  talk 05:48, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. I love the growth pattern (or whatever it's called) on the left sample. Quite neat, & of course great quality/EV. Amphy (talk) 07:02, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - Beautiful - Peripitus (Talk) 09:14, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support—extraordinary shapes and textures, lovely against the background and in relation to each other. Tony   (talk)  15:56, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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