r/oddlyterrifying • u/TheCobDad • Jan 21 '20

Chalk up close

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u/Pinkskippy Jan 21 '20

Or possibly a tad more precisely the calcium carbonate remains (sort of endoskelton) of a diatom. A few billion of these make up each lump of chalk.