wet mount

• Wet mounts involve your specimen being in a liquid
• They are more difficult to carry out than dry mounting but can produce slides that give a really clear view of a specimen
• can be used with a variety of specimens including living samples
• • Pipet a small drop of water onto the slide.
  • Use tweezers to place your specimen on top of the water drop.
  • To put the cover slip on, stand the slip upright on the slide, next to the water droplet. Then carefully tilt and lower it so it covers the specimen.
  • Once the cover slip is in position, you can add a stain. Put a drop of stain next to one edge of the cover slip. Then put a bit of paper towel next to the opposite edge. The stain will get drawn under the slip, across the specimen.
• wet mount slide

  A) cover slip

  B) water droplet