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A cover slip is a thin square of glass that you put over a specimen on a microscope slide. The cover slip stops the specimen from drying out, and squishes it so that light can get though it easier
The glass slide has allowed a closer, more in-depth look into the world around us, from pond water to pap smears. Skin scrapings, blood smears, hair, parasites, tissue samples and the like have all...