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A microscope slide and coverslip should be held by their edges due to leaving fingerprints and/or debris and how easily breakable they are. Leaving fingerprints or debris on either a slide of coverslip will alter the view under the microscope.

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because it will get on your fingers and it will be smudgy on the glass and it is safer.

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So that you don't smudge it with fingerprints which would make it harder to focus on your specimen.

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