Your tears are as extraordinary (and excellent) as snowflakes

Do you know what your tears look like at a tiny level? Dutch craftsman Maurice Mikkers does, and he's been taking a gander at several them. It appears that our tears can be as exceptional as snowflakes, and have a comparative solidified look under a magnifying lens.

Mikkers was a lab specialist before he went to craftsmanship school, and has yet to discover two tears that carbon copy. He's likewise researching how temperature, moistness, and even the reason for the crying can impact a tear's structure.

"[A] dull field magnifying lens will illuminate the tear on a dark foundation, so you can really see the lovely examples and shapes," Mikkers says in the Quartz video above. "I think tears are so unexplored. We have to make sense of why."

There are three primary sorts of tears: basal (or base) tears, that keep our eyes greased up, reflex tears because of disturbance (like a spot in the eye or onions), and enthusiastic tears (connected to lost passionate control, either through joy or pity).

Mikkers needs to perceive how a tear brought about by a dismal motion picture could vary in appearance from a tear created by stubbing your toe. What we do definitely know is that passionate tears have three additional fixings: the anxiety hormones prolactin and adrenocorticotropic hormone, and the painkiller leucine enkephalin.

A glad tear (left) and a pitiful tear (right). Credit: Maurice Wikkers 

Obviously, with regards to passionate tears, we as a whole have distinctive trigger levels - the same discourse can abandon one individual a rambling wreck and have the following yawning. Our identities could likewise play into the way our tears look under a magnifying lens.

Mikkers starts by gathering attacks micropipettes. They are then dropped into tubes before being moved in 1 to 4 mm drops to a minuscule slide. Crystallization can take somewhere around 5 and 30 minutes, contingent upon the earth.

In this way, there's been little research into how our tears take shape, however Mikkers is resolved to continue exploring, making some one of a kind show-stoppers along the way.

Biomedical researcher Naomi Chayen from the University of London thinks further logical methods will be required to see exactly what makes these tears show up so distinctive.

"Gems are extremely subject to the fixings," she told Kate Groetzinger at Quartz. "On the off chance that it is the same individual and that day and the passionate tear dries uniquely in contrast to the one brought about by the onion, it would be, extremely fascinating."

Watch the video above to perceive how Mikkers does it, and see a portion of the outcomes here and underneath.

Investigating a fan: 

Passionate reaction: 

Eating a hot red pepper: 

Cutting white onions: