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ALTHOUGH, as Mr. Wilfrid Marshall points out in NATURE of April 12, there appears to be no theoretical advantage in using a mountant containing dried Canada balsam and α-bromonaphthalene, in practice the mixture has the valuable property of high viscosity. The use of a medium of high viscosity enables fresh mounts to be photomicrographed at high magnification, using the microscope in a horizontal position; in fact, we now find it to be an advantage to use twice the stipulated quantity of dried Canada balsam in order to make the mountant as viscous as possible, so that film sections may be photomicrographed within a few minutes of being cut.
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JELLEY, E. Mounting Media for Microscopic Work. Nature 125, 672 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125672e0
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