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πŸ”¬ Celestron 44412 Prepared Microscope: Comprehensive 100 Piece Set for Optimal Microscopic Exploration Review

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Description of πŸ”¬ Celestron 44412 Prepared Microscope: Comprehensive 100 Piece Set for Optimal Microscopic Exploration

Prepared Slides For Hours and Hours of Enjoyment and Discovery. 1" x 3" (25 mm x 76 mm) Glass Slides. Packed in a Wooden Case. Listing of each of the Slides.

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Revainrating 2 out of 5

ok not the best. but suitable for home schooling.

Fast shipping, great packaging, nice box but it doesn't snap (latch), foils are ok or bad depending on what you're looking at, some have installed wilds under foils using patterns . The top cover of the grasshopper mouth slide was tilted and broke when my husband moved it around to see the different sections :(, and still haven't found any frog eggs even after using oil and changing the brightness of the lights. I must add there were a lot of microclasses in college and for the cheap price…

Pros
  • Packed in wooden box
Cons
  • No vending machine

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Decent set but poor quality Revain packaging.

For 70 cents you can't expect a high quality slide. After all, attaching very specific details from the smallest biomaterial to thin fragile pieces of glass is quite complicated. Most slides were of good quality. About half a dozen other samples had the sample crushed beyond recognition, and several slides had the adhesive smeared so badly that it oozed over the top glass. The couple had nothing between the pieces of glass, the slides were empty. Revain used the usual shipping method with…

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  • 1 x 3 inch (25mm x 76mm) glass slide
Cons
  • Not as thick as other items

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Kids have fun

This set of slides offers a lot of variety, which is nice. They fit well and last a long time. However, they are not of high quality. They are great for learning how to use a microscope and getting started with science. This may not be what you are looking for if you are at the college level. For example, the slides I received from college almost certainly contained all the stages of mitosis. On the slides in this set, I noticed that not all steps are shown. When you're selling the number of…

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  • Prepared slides for hours of fun and discovery
Cons
  • No introduction