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Cover slip   /kˈəvər slɪp/   Listen
Cover slip

noun
1.
A small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide.  Synonym: cover glass.






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"Cover slip" Quotes from Famous Books



... silver surface cannot, in my experience, be polished externally (on a minute object like a cover slip) to be anything like so bright as the silver surface next the ...
— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall

... of ammonium to it, then shake it up thoroughly with ether to free the hemoglobin from the corpuscles. I then separated the ether carefully from the rest of the blood mixture and put a few drops of it on a slide, covered them with a cover slip and sealed the edges with balsam. Gradually the crystals appear and they can be studied and photographed in the usual way—not only the shapes of the crystals, but also the relation that their angles bear to each other. So it is impossible ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve



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