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- Well slide
- Medicine dropper
- Cover slip
- Flat slide
- Prepare a Flat Slide for Your Microscope
Make sure your slide, cover slip and medicine dropper are all clean, dry and dust-free.
- Place your flat slide on a clean, dry surface.
Use your medicine dropper to suck up a few drops of your liquid sample.
Squeeze one drop of your liquid sample out onto the direct center of the flat slide.
Gently lower your cover slip onto the flat slide. Put one edge of the cover slip down first, before lowering the rest of it. Do not press down on the cover slip once it is in place.
Pick up the slide and cover slip combination and gently place it in the viewing tray of your microscope.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agotake a single cover slip and hold it between thumb and forefinger by the edges. Pick up some vaseline on the other forefinger and rub it over your thumb to make a film. Scrape your thumb carefully on each edge of the coverslip to make a continuous vaseline ledge. Place a drop or two of suspension on a clean slide, and turn the coverslip over on top of the drop. Press down the edges to seal the chamber against evaporation. When preparing a vaseline mount, keep in mind that the image becomes degraded with thicker mounts, especially at high powers in dark field or phase contrast. Unless the specimen is large and fragile enough to be damaged by pressing down too hard on the coverslip, keep the chamber depth very shallow.
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How do you prepare temporary mount of a leaf peel to show stomata?
The peeling from the lower epidermal cell is mounted in glycerine or water on a glass slide to show stomata
What Slide mount is used for viewing an Elodea leaf?
a wet mount
What happens when you prepare a smear from a agar plate or slant without first placing water on slide?
If you prepare a slide from an agar plate without placing water on the slide first the agar will be to lumpy on the slide. It will make to much of the specimen be in one spot.
Why must you dry your slide before putting it on the stage of the microscope?
because of liquids on the slide or to clean the slide
Contrast a prepared slide and a wet-mount slide?
A prepared slide is sealed by acrylic or any other medium. After the solvent evaporates, the specimen is locked under the slip. On the other hand, a wet mount slide has the specimen prepared just before it is put under microscope.
What is another name for a slide that has no liquid or cover slip?
Another name for a slide that has no liquid or cover slip is a dry smear or a dry mount. It is usually used to examine blood.
What are the steps of the wet mount?
the five steps to making a wet mount slide is 1.use a flat glass slide to prepare a wt mount slide 2.suck up a few drops of water from your liquid specimen into a medicaine dropper 3.pick up the wet mount slide on the 2 outer sides of the slides 4.place the specimen your using into the water 5.place the top cover slips on the top of the water with the specimen in it (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (:
If you prepare a wet mount slide and observe a large empty circle with dark edges you are most likely seeing an air bubble.?
True
How do you prepare slide?
First: Clean off the slide
What is to mount a slide?
A wet mount slide is when a solution is applied to a microscope slide with whatever subject is being studied, typically under a slip cover.
How do you prepare temporary mount of a leaf peel to show stomata?
The peeling from the lower epidermal cell is mounted in glycerine or water on a glass slide to show stomata
What is the difference between wet mount and dry mount?
- a wet mount is freshly prepared while a dry mount is pre-prepared and sealed. - the specimen is alive in a wet mount while in a dry mount the specimen is dead - air bubbles can be trapped in a wet mount but not in a dry mount - wet mounts are priceless while dry mounts costs
What Slide mount is used for viewing an Elodea leaf?
a wet mount
What happens when you prepare a smear from a agar plate or slant without first placing water on slide?
If you prepare a slide from an agar plate without placing water on the slide first the agar will be to lumpy on the slide. It will make to much of the specimen be in one spot.
What is a dry mount?
a dry mount is when yuo place something in the middle of two pices of glass.
How do you prepare a microscope slide of a liver tissue?
spit on it
What is the stage used for in a microscope?
to mount the slide
