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Thursday 20 June 2013

Science and Silliness!

When blue sparkly nail varnish sits pretty under the microscope! taken as an undergrad student :)
Magnification --- x100
During the maddening 3 month long internship i underwent, the only way i got through it all was by amusing myself with experiments (including the kind that could blow up half the lab) of my own. here,I used nail varnish in the lab when making slides to stop the glass coverslip from moving and ruining my precious dissections. I have been using it ever since for sealing the edges of slides to stop them drying out. Although it’s not as good as some of the resins scientists used to cook up themselves., but so far good. How pretty it looks :)
In exhibitions one can  see slides made  100 years ago with samples that are still perfectly preserved – not sure mine will last that long!