April 2012
Beginner
378 pages
13h 58m
English
You’ll need the following items to complete this lab session. (The standard kit for this book, available from www.thehomescientist.com, includes the items listed in the first group.)
Goggles
Coverslips
Pipettes
Slides (flat)
Stain, eosin Y
Stain, Gram’s iodine
Stain, Hucker’s crystal violet
Stain, methylene blue
Stain, safranin O
Stirring rod (optional)
Gloves
Butane lighter (or other flame source)
Ethanol, 70%
Microscope and illuminator
Paper towels
Toothpicks
Water, distilled
As we learned in the last lab session, staining is an essential tool for optical microscopy because it allows viewing structural details that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to discriminate. ...
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