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Have questions? Talk to Customer Service. Quantity Decrease Quantity: Increase Quantity:. Add to Wishlist Create New Wishlist. Take incredible close-up pictures with your microscope! Want to turn this home microscope into a digital microscope? Get a great deal on our excellent, easy-to-use 2. With it, you'll be able to take high-clarity images of everything you see under your scope! Abbe condenser and iris diaphragm plus x magnification Compare features of the scopes in the Home microscope series with this comparison chart.

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Get a great deal on our excellent, easy-to-use 2. To make a wet mount of the cork, put one drop of water in the center of a plain glass slide — the water droplet should be larger than the slice of cork.

Gently set the slice of cork on top of the drop of water tweezers might be helpful for this. If you are not able to cut a thin enough slice of the whole diameter of the cork, a smaller section will work. Take one coverslip and hold it at an angle to the slide so that one edge of it touches the water droplet on the surface of the slide. Then, being careful not to move the cork around, lower the coverslip without trapping any air bubbles beneath it.

The water should form a seal around the cork. Use the corner of a paper towel to blot up any excess water at the edges of the coverslip. To keep the slide from drying out, you can make a seal of petroleum jelly around the coverslip with a toothpick.

Begin with the lowest-power objective to view your slide. Then switch to a higher power objective to see more detail. Use this same wet mount method for the other cell specimens listed below. You can even check out cells from your own body! The cells on the inside of your cheek are called Squamous Epithelium cells and can be easily viewed with a compound microscope.

To make a cheek smear, take a clean toothpick and gently scrape the inside of your cheek. Then wipe that part of the toothpick in the center of your slide. This will smear the cells along the slide, making a layer thin enough to view clearly. Let the smear air dry. Once your smear is dry, add a drop of methylene blue stain to the center of the smear so you will be able to see the cells more clearly.

Gently set a coverslip over the smear and scan your slide under low power to locate the cells, then observe them more closely under high power. Vegetables are a great way to learn about plants.

Did you know that carrots are actually roots, and celery stalks are stems? Cut a few extremely thin slices out of the middle of the carrot, and some from the middle of the celery stalk.

Compare and contrast what you see in each one, then switch to the 10x objective to look a little more closely. To see details of the amazing structure of plants, use the 40x objective and scan each slide, carefully observing all of the parts and different cells. Before you begin, make sure the leaf is clean and dry. Read More. Teaching Resources Discover effective ways to teach science.

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