What are some good specimens for my microscope, and what products do I use to sterilize my equipment???
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get yourself some pond water, theres more stuff to look at in there that just about anything else.\n\nRubbing alcohol is ok for sterilising, unless your using stuff thats potentually dangerous it will do.\n\nIn your petri dish you put Agar, it's jelly stuff u can buy it  in sachets, its made from seaweed, when u are mixing it up with water u add a drop of nutrient solution, normally specific to what your trying to grow.  The find yourself some bacteria or mold and put them in the petri dish, cover it up and watch.
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the laboratory apparatus are many but the most used apparatus are listed below:\n1. conical flask\n2. test tube\n3. forceps\n4. spatula\n5. crucible\n6. mortar\n7. pestle\n8. Beirut\n9. pipette\n10. graduated cylinder\n11. petridish\n12. evaporating dish\n13. Bunsen burner\n14. tripod\n15. metal gauze\n16. beaker\n17. pipette dropper\n18. U tube\n19. stand\n20. clamp
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http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microscope.htm
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if you need to see bacterial morphology, it's probably 100x objective (total magnification = 1000x).  This would be under oil immersion.  This is the only magnification i know of that comes standard on a compound microscope that would allow you to see bacterial morphology clearly....anything lower (ie-400x) and you won't be able to see much more than some tiny speckles on a slide.
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Depends if you want to grow pure cultures of microbes or not. If you don't have to have pure cultures, just put your leftovers in the fridge and forget'em. ;-)\n\nIf you want to grow pure cultures, you will need to know aseptic technique and what each type of microbe likes to eat. \n\nSome will go on a defined medium. That is one that you know exactly what it in there. Some have to have something complicated that we don't know exactly what all the components are, like yeast extract, beef heart infusion, that sort of thing.\n\nThen you need to know the temperature and humidity requirements of your bug and any special atmosphere conditions it need, like low oxygen or no oxygen.\n\nIt also helps to know how to store samples of your bug for future use. Can you freeze it? or do you have to lypholyse it?\n\nHope this helps.
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you should wear lab coat and gloves.you should handle carefully all the chemicals and do the experiment stepwise.be patient in taking the readings even a small mistake can make a lot of difference.wash the test tube and spatula before using it.dont keep the test tube directly on the burner.take zerro reading bfore using any instrument.
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test the corrosive properties of different solutions. Use ungalvinized steel nuts from hardware store. ( It is important that they are not galvinized, not stainless, and not zinc.) use soda, salt water, tap water, urine, bleach, and vinegar. It should yeild surprising and interesting results.\nP.S. don't use metal bowls, take lots of pictures.
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You really do not need to sterilize them.  You do need to strip them off the quill and cut them to shape and size.  Here's a link to tell you how to do it.  I hope this helps.
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sampler platter please
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Usually temperatures of 105°C are used for sterilization in the lab. Under normal pressure water boils at 100°C, which makes it sort of impossible to sterilize without a pressure vessel.\n\nIn the lab and in industrial processes, autoclaves are used. For a science project mom's pressure cooker will do.\n\n\nYou can measure the remaining active cells by doing an agar agar petri disk test.
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As a vet student, I have not needed my own microscope. They are provided by the school for any courses that need them. Few students get out of school and start their own practice from scratch which is the only instance I could think of actually needing my own scope. I'd invest in a stethoscope or text books instead.
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You can use a regular camera, but only if your microscope comes with a place to attach the regular camera. Basically all research quality microscopes do have a place where you can attach either a digital or a camera which uses film as long as it is a SLR camera and you can take the camera lens off (you basically attach the microscope instead of the lens in front of your camera). If you use a film camera, you may have to work out proper exposure times and be very careful with proper focusing. With a digital camera it is easier to check as you can look at the image you just took if it came out OK. Normally you can also attach digital cameras to a computer and see a large version of the image you took on the computer screen. \nYou won't get any good images holding a regular camera in front of an eyepiece like where you put your eye. For one thing it is difficult to hold the camera consitently in the correct place. Another is that light falling in from the side will be bad for the image quality. I think also the size of the image there may not be large enough to allow you to take an image of a high resolution.\nThere are also cameras you can buy which you can put onto your eyepiece instead of the ocular lens. They give decent images.
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try this\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Laboratory_equipment
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there are many biological tools. few of them are,\n\nIncubators : which are used for growing microbes on laboratory media...they are maintaiined at different temperatures for bacteria, fungi and algae.\n\nLaminar air flow and saftey cabinets: used for carrying out microbiological work aseptically.\n\nAutoclave : Used for sterilization of microbiological medias\n\nBalances : Used for weighing media's\n\nhope that's enough for you.
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1. Wash the apparatus with some acid first and then rinse with water. \n2. Place them in a position where there will be no risk of falling. \n3. If you see any cracks on any apparatus, do not use them for heating and inform your teacher or lab assistant. \nyou cannot improve these apparatus, since they made with pyrex or plastic or some sort of fibre glass.
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take your soil sample and suspend some in a little sterile water; plate out the suspension on agar plates in the usual way and isolate the colonies as a way to do a preliminary sort. Then maybe culture them ... Then do your in-depth analysis.
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Here are some Lab Apparatus \nhttp://library.advanced.org/11430/research/apparatus.htm\nhttp://www.charltonsci.co.uk/charlton_scientific_015.htm\n\nhere are all the Lab Apparatus (click on them to get info one them)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Laboratory_equipment