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When you say they are hard to see, how should I aid myself in seeing them? I've noticed pulling the light farther away from the stage helps to see detail. Should I keep the light here, or will they not appear this way? Also, the common bacteria, is it smaller or larger than a blood cell? Under my un...

So number 2 is probably more blood cells in a pocket being reflected differently than the rest and so appearing smaller? Or what im seeing on there that look similar to blood cells is something random that isn't blood cell related, or bacteria related at all? These were the closet things to bacteria...

So I just got a pretty nice Microscope (nice by my standards), and It's capable of seeing the very shape of blood cells pretty clearly. Thing is, I took a blood sample, samples from the inside of my mouth, nose, and ears, and such, but expected to find MANY bacteria. When you look at "germ" warning ...

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