Centrales Diatom in salt crystal landscape
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 6:42 pm
Hi together,
I was tidying up my microscope cupboard a bit and my eyes fell upon a couple of unnamed slides. They looked similar in that they all had some kind of mountant in the outer areas of the cover slip and air in the middle. I have no Idea when (if?) I made them. When I lookes at the firstone I found some centrales dieatoms, looking nice and contrasty due to the big difference in refractive index between diatom and air. The next slide contained similar centrales, but this time embedded in a nice crystal landscape. I usually take a microscope with me on holidays and have probably made them at the sea and mounted them in air and epoxy glue.
I like the image and the quality shows that it is no terrible problem to have no diatom mountant at hand.
Zeiss Jena 40:1 0,95 apo, optovar 1,6
Bob
I was tidying up my microscope cupboard a bit and my eyes fell upon a couple of unnamed slides. They looked similar in that they all had some kind of mountant in the outer areas of the cover slip and air in the middle. I have no Idea when (if?) I made them. When I lookes at the firstone I found some centrales dieatoms, looking nice and contrasty due to the big difference in refractive index between diatom and air. The next slide contained similar centrales, but this time embedded in a nice crystal landscape. I usually take a microscope with me on holidays and have probably made them at the sea and mounted them in air and epoxy glue.
I like the image and the quality shows that it is no terrible problem to have no diatom mountant at hand.
Zeiss Jena 40:1 0,95 apo, optovar 1,6
Bob