[Taxacom] Water soluble mounting media

[Richard Zander]

Dan:

Permanent? I don't know any permanent water-soluble mounting medium that has the refractive index of glycerin. If the testae of the amoebas are sturdy, you might try pure Elmer's clear glue. Use copiously, and it should embed the specimen in polyvinyl alcohol.

Richard


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From: daniel.lahr at gmail.com [mailto:daniel.lahr at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dan Lahr
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:35 AM
To: Richard Zander
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Water soluble mounting media

Hi Richard,
Thank you for this link, I found the article quite helpful and will try a couple of these.
I have been looking for a water soluble medium for permanent mounting of testate amoeba slides.  Balsam (any kind) is a pain, and the classical Euparal is quite hard to make and recently I have not been able to find all ingredients.  Do you have any recommendations? I noticed you mention glycerin-jelly as semi-permanent, but perhaps in appropriate controlled environment?
Thanks,

Dan

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Dept of Zoology, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Richard Zander <Richard.Zander at mobot.org<mailto:Richard.Zander at mobot.org>> wrote:
Those who would like to try a new, simple, nonpoisonous, cheap, reliable mounting medium for microslides might check out my paper in Phytoneuron:

http://www.phytoneuron.net/2014Phytoneuron/32PhytoN-MicroMountingMedia.pdf
or
http://tinyurl.com/nh9lqfd


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Richard H. Zander
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