Friday, March 1, 2013

SCIENCE

O'l Mom thinks that I should do a blog tonight despite not having done anything worthy of blogging about...  I guess I could share some knowledge that I heard at a science today and will probably forget tomorrow: In order to color certain bacteria, a slide with said bacteria must be first procured, then dipped first in Crystal Annomyde, where it will trickle through the cell wall and into the nuclei, then dipped in Iodine to procure a color which is utterly and undeniably fabulous, than dipped in alcohol, which, unexpectedly, shrinks the inner wall on gram + bacteria and dissolves the second outer membrane on a gram - bacteria, making them easily distinguishable. You might not expect this to come in handy if you're building a huge sub-atomic quarkial contraption to pioneer the event of moving an object across time and space, but it will probably be relevant at some point, especially if it only transports living things or if it is powered, inspired, or contracted out to space and time-transcending magic microbes. That's all tonight!

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  1. That wasn't QUITE the process, but you ended up being able to see different bacteria through the microscope that looked like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Gram_stain_01.jpg/320px-Gram_stain_01.jpg

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