[The King of Elflands Daughter]

Both ebay and edmund’s scientific sell prepared slides.

[Krankor]

Spaghetti stains are fascinating.

[alicewonders]

I took a microbiology class a couple of years ago & we learned how to smear, stain & preserve slides. You might buy a microbiology textbook to learn how. It was fun!

[Kirkwood]

Histology World

http://www.histology-world.com/

[al baby]

Well now you have made the list of suspected biological right wing terrorist

[cripplecreek]

Just real glad to hear your hobby isn’t colonoscopy.

[Sundog]

Take a quick walk in the woods with a few test tubes, small ones.

Gather water from various sources. Ponds, puddles, stream shore.

I love looking at little living creatures.

[loungitude]

In 6th grade or so, we took a jar of tap water, put a few blades of grass into it, and let it sit for a few days. Then we looked at the water, and it was full of all kinds of little swimmys. (I didn’t continue in the biological sciences!)

[ALPAPilot]

My father was a professor of histology, my mother worked in the Univ of Minn. histology lab for 20+ years preparing slides of tissue. (it’s where she met my dad). Unfortunately I’m an airline pilot and can’t help.

[SunkenCiv]

related search, ccd microscope:

Dogpile

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

You might want to check out a digital camera attachment for your microscope.

[LibFreeOrDie]

You will need immersion oil so that you can use the 100x oil-immersion lens.

http://www.microscopesnewandused.com/item15190.ctlg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_immersion

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

If any of the oculars have a double stripe (usually green) it will mean that it is an oil immersion ocular. If you try to use it without oil it will scratch the lens. You will not be able to focus it onto a slide without a drop of oil on the slide. The item you are viewing needs to be dried and very thin or you will need to put a cover slip over the slide to put on the drop of oil. An oil immersion lens is used to read differentials in a CBC(complete blood count). to view a blood smear a drop of blood has to been smeared across the slide in a special way. The smear should be allowed to dry before it is stained to bring out the pigmentation's of the blood cells.

Have fun with your new you.

[SunkenCiv]

possibly of interest:

Slideshow: Now you see it...
Nature News | June 2009 | NA
Posted on 06/06/2009 11:54:06 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2266521/posts

[djf]

Second micrograph!

Proof that I am a red-blooded American!


Blood sample, 400X