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A simple microscope has a series of lenses that can magnify tiny particles that the eye cannot see. It uses glass slides to encase what it is that the user wants to see. They sit on a platform while the user looks through an eyepiece at the top.
Microscope slides are held in place on the microscope's stage by slide clips or slide clamps.
The Stage.
You would place a slide on the stage of a microscope.
microscope, pipette, and slides with coverslips
A simple microscope has a series of lenses that can magnify tiny particles that the eye cannot see. It uses glass slides to encase what it is that the user wants to see. They sit on a platform while the user looks through an eyepiece at the top.
Microscope slides are held in place on the microscope's stage by slide clips or slide clamps.
Microscope slides are held in place on the microscope's stage by slide clips or slide clamps.
The platform on a microscope that holds the specimen is called the stage
The best way to store microscope slides is in a slide box. A slide box will keep slides from sticking to each other, keeping them intact.
The microscope stage is the platform on which a slide is placed for viewing.
condensor plate
condensor plate
On the specimen stage.
The number of microscope slides used by student nurses in their first year of study depends on what type of courses are taught. It can also depend upon the number of microscope slides that are broken.
As far as I remember, don't touch it with your bare hands - use forceps etc and when placing it on the microscope platform handle its edges (as you would a CD). Then study its contents using the microscope at appropriate magnification.
What helps you look at small objects in slides is the microscope.