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This maybe proved a bit difficult so I will provide gradual help depending on the guesses.

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This is a single image (no stacking) with a 10x objective using epi brightfield illumination with cross polarizers.
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Post by Peter M. Macdonald »

Clearly an organic structure with regularly repeating units meaning that we are looking at a colonial animal. That lowers the possible cast to bryozoan and corals. The series of vertical scratches suggests that this is a fossil specimen which has been polished, but the fine polishing has not been taken beyond what is needed to make a nice lustre for bare eye viewing. The structure of fossil bryozoan does not extend far into the substrate, whereas that of colonial corals does, so I would plump for a fossil colonial coral. Beyond that, it is not a species with which I am familiar.

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Peter M. Macdonald wrote:Clearly an organic structure with regularly repeating units meaning that we are looking at a colonial animal. That lowers the possible cast to bryozoan and corals. The series of vertical scratches suggests that this is a fossil specimen which has been polished, but the fine polishing has not been taken beyond what is needed to make a nice lustre for bare eye viewing. The structure of fossil bryozoan does not extend far into the substrate, whereas that of colonial corals does, so I would plump for a fossil colonial coral. Beyond that, it is not a species with which I am familiar.
There are some good points to your analysis but I will disappoint you. This is a not a plant or animal or fossil. This is something artificial.

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Keypad membrane?

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I'm with Rik - keypad membrane.

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Nope is not a keypad membrane

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Bottom tray of Ferrero Roche a.
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I can't remember when was the last time I ate a Ferrero Roche.This is a much more common household item.

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Everybody seems stuck. Any clues, or maybe the answer?

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Moulded plastic, to give the effect of "knurled" metal?

Those organic-looking outgrowths; a last-to-freeze phase squishing out from the matrix?
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Post by harisA »

Ok I will provide some more help. This is a very common household item which is ''connected'' with a very powerful industry (hundreds of billions $) only in USA.
A more ''representative'' display of it's microstructure is shown in the image below.
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Post by grgh »

Ok Stumped?

why USA only?
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Post by perdu34 »

Is it the back side of an LED panel?

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I didn't mean USA only.I wanted to say that this industry has an enormous size of several hundred billions $ in US market.Of course there are corresponding industries all over the world with significant size.

No these images have nothing to do with leds.

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Is it plastic?
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