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A microscope slide is a small rectangular piece of glass that the sample (the thing you're looking at) is placed on for observation. Generally, the sample is next covered with a cover strip (a small piece of plastic, used to keep the sample from sliding). The slide makes it possible to look at the sample. Otherwise, the sample would fall into the microscope light, which would be a little inconvenient.

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a microscope slide is a rectangular piece of glass that goes undr the lens of a microscope. You put the thing you want to magnify on the slide, turn on the light, and look through the lens and you see the thing really big.

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It is made out of glass

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