Re: Immersion Oil
Posted by
Craig Brideau on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Immersion-Oil-tp2491973p2492077.html
We use Cargille oil on all our scopes and it seems to work well. Cargille sells a cheap sampler kit that lets you try a few different types of their oils. For uprights type A is good, while type B is good for inverted. They have a few other types with various properties as well.
http://www.cargille.com/immeroil.shtmlCraig
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Theresa Swayne
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My boss uses Nikon oil on Nikon & Zeiss scopes with no problems. I heard bad stories about cross-contamination (oil combining to form sticky mess) but never tested it.
On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:56 AM, David Knecht wrote:
We now have Nikon, Zeiss and Leica microscopes in our facility. Is the problem of cross-contamination of immersion oil real or hypothetical? Is it possible to use a single type of immersion oil for all, so that we don't have to worry about moving samples between microscopes? Dave
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