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3. When you are finished examining your specimen, just wash and dry the slide
and cover slip to use again and again.
4. If you want to make your dry mount slide more permanent, you can place a
drop of clear nail polish on your specimen and then put on the cover slip while
the nail polish is still wet.
Good things to look at with dry mount slides
Hair, fur, and feathers
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Small insects or insect body parts
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Butterfly or moth wings
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Cloth
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Printed material
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BRINE SHRIMP
BATTERY INSTALLATION AND CHARGING
Your microscope kit comes with a vial of brine shrimp eggs and a hatching
station. Here's how to grow and observe your own shrimp.
Growing Brine Shrimp
1. Prepare the saltwater for them to live in by adding 1–1½ teaspoons of non-
iodized table salt to a cup of water. Stir until all the salt has dissolved. Use
only bottled water to prevent any impurities that might keep the shrimp from
growing.
2. Pour a small amount of saltwater into each compartment of your hatching
station.
3. Sprinkle a tiny amount of eggs into each compartment, just enough to cover
about ¼ to ½ of the surface of the water.
4. Move your hatching station into a sunny window. DO NOT COVER IT WITH THE
LID. The shrimp need oxygen to survive.
5. Your shrimp should start hatching in 24–48 hours. They are really tiny, so look
for little brown specks that are moving below the surface of the saltwater.
Observing Brine Shrimp
Once your shrimp have hatched, cover the hatching station with the lid and
observe the shrimp through the magnifying lenses.
For even more magnification, suck up some shrimp into the pipette and place a
few drops of that water onto a blank microscope slide. Cover the droplets gently
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