Paraffin

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ivangallego24
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Paraffin

#1 Post by ivangallego24 » Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:28 am

Does anyone know what this is for? To be honest, when I bought it I didn't know what it was for but I found it interesting in case it was useful
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Re: Paraffin

#2 Post by daruosha » Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:55 am

Its for embedding tissues into paraffin blocks and enables very thin sections to be cut with a microtome.

Check out this link for much more detail procedures
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science- ... ection-2.2

This video is also very useful:

Daruosh.

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