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Editorial | What Every Microscopist Should Know (Take the Challenge): the Results

THE MICROSCOPE
2019, Volume 67:2, p. ii
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59082/IIFZ6145
AUTHOR
Gary J. Laughlin
EXCERPT
A year ago in this column (The Microscope, 66:2, p. ii, 2018), I challenged readers to list their Top 10 choices of particles from various substance classes that every well-rounded microscopist encounters regularly and should be able to identify. For brevity, here are the results for the Top 5 in each category, in random order. Special thanks to Oppenheimer Goldberg of Scottsbluff, NE for his thorough contribution to the challenge.
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