Product Description

Microscope Slide

Microscope slide is a thin flat piece of glass, usually 75 by 26 mm [3/1 inches] and about 1 mm thick, used to hold objects for examination under a microscope. Generally  the object is placed or secured on the slide,and then both are inserted together in the microscope for viewing.

The arrangement allows several slide-mounted objects to be quickly inserted and removed from the microscope, labeled,transported, and stored in appropriate slide cases or folders. Microscope slides are often used together with a cover slip or cover glass, a smaller and thinner sheet of glass that is placed over the specimen.Slides are held in place on the microscope’s stage by slide clips,slide clamps or a cross-table which is used to achieve precise, remote movement of the slide upon the microscope’s stage such as in an automated  computer operated system.