is the procedure for aking a wet mount slide of a letter.
Use the eyedropper to place a drop of water on the center
of a microscope slide
2. Use the tweezers to position the letter "e" in the center
of the drop.
3. Holding the cover slip at a 45 degree angle, lower it slowly over the drop
on the TV to watch a movie on how to make
a wet mount slide of a letter.
what the letter "e" looks like under low
and high power. As
you can see, the specimen appears to be upside down
When you switch to high power the field
of view DECREASES.
of view is the amount of the specimen you are able
The higher the power, the less you see
it is always better to begin focusing on the lowest
power possible. Beginning on the lowest power gives
you the "Widest field of View", which means
example, you most likely learned the alphabet in preschool,
yet it is difficult to tell
specimen under high power in the picture above
is the letter "e".
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