How to slow down micro subjects

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How to slow down micro subjects

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Passing along a reference posted yesterday by Gordon Couger on the Yahoo Microscope Group...

Narcotizing, Slowing Down, and Preserving Microscopic and other Aquatic Animals
by John Gustav Delly, Scientific Advisor, College of Microscopy, Westmont, IL
June 16, 08
http://www.modernmicroscopy.com/main.as ... =79&page=1
From @ the EyePoint column in The McCrone Group's online journal, Modern Microscopy.

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I am not a microscopist, but did read once Rik where somebody added plastic wallpaper paste (Polycell in the UK) to the liquid to increase it's viscosity and slow the swimming subjects down so they did not cross the field of view so quickly. Bit like swimming through mud or molasses for them! I presume it would aid photographing them also?

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Yes, it would, and in fact "Mechanical Methods", specifically including wallpaper paste, is the first class of methods discussed in Delly's paper.

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Post by Walter Piorkowski »

Thanks for this link Rik, it made interesting reading. Walt

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