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Dark Field Microscopy Slide Cleaning

First Contact™ Polymer Solutions – Some examples

Cleaning glass is very difficult.

Microscopists Bonin and Bonessi evaluated the First Contact polymer for cleaning slides to resolve issues encountered with dark field microscopy when an accepted cleaning technique, specifically Squeaky Clean Slides method utilizing a Sonicator bath. They found that First Contact used after an ammonia wash removed virtually all particulates from glass slides.



Microscope slide, dark field microscopy,
after Squeaky Clean Slides method 		aa Microscope slide, dark field microscopy.
Left side with ammonia cleaning, right side
with ammonia followed by First Contact.

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Images from ‘Ultra Clean Microscope Slides,’ Keith Bonin and Doug Bonessi, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University