{"title":"Microscope slides and prepared sets","description":"\u003cp\u003eMicroscope slides, cover slips and prepared slide sets for compound microscopes. Prepared slides are professionally cut, stained and sealed specimens, ready to look at the moment they arrive, and they're the fastest way to get value from a new microscope. Blank glass slides and cover slips are what you need to prepare your own. Our starter set is the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-n20-ng-prepared-slides-set\" title=\"Levenhuk N20 NG prepared slides set\"\u003eLevenhuk N20 NG\u003c\/a\u003e, which has 20 prepared slides covering plant cells, animal tissue, insects and blood, plus 24 blank slides and 40 cover slips, for around £25. The \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-n80-ng-prepared-slides-set\" title=\"Levenhuk N80 NG prepared slides set\"\u003eN80 NG\u003c\/a\u003e has 80 slides and an illustrated guide, and the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-g50-blank-slides\" title=\"Levenhuk G50 blank slides\"\u003eG50 blank slides\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-g100-cover-slips\" title=\"Levenhuk G100 cover slips\"\u003eG100 cover slips\u003c\/a\u003e come in packs of 50 and 100 for making your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePrepared slides or make your own\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart with prepared slides. They show you what a well-made specimen looks like at each magnification, which makes your own first attempts far easier to judge. Once you're comfortable, blank slides, cover slips and a dropper let you look at pond water, onion skin, cheek cells and anything else thin enough for light to pass through. The two go together, and every prepared set we sell includes blanks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhich slides fit which microscope\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStandard slides are about 76 by 26 mm and fit any \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/compound-microscopes\" title=\"Compound microscopes\"\u003ecompound microscope\u003c\/a\u003e with a stage and clips, which is every one we sell. They don't suit a \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stereo-microscopes\" title=\"Stereo microscopes\"\u003estereo microscope\u003c\/a\u003e or a \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/digital-microscopes\" title=\"Digital microscopes with a screen\"\u003edigital microscope with a screen\u003c\/a\u003e, both of which light from above and are built for solid objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMicroscope slide FAQs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAre prepared slides suitable for children?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes, and they're the best starting point. The specimens are sealed under glass, so there's nothing to spill, and a set of 20 keeps a child busy for weeks. Pair them with any microscope in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/microscopes-for-kids\" title=\"Microscopes for kids and home education\"\u003ekids' collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDo I need cover slips?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor anything wet, yes. The cover slip flattens the drop so the lens can focus through it and keeps the objective lens clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCan I reuse blank slides?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes. Wash them in warm soapy water, rinse and dry with a lint-free cloth. Cover slips are thin enough that they're usually treated as single-use.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"levenhuk-n20-ng-prepared-slides-set","title":"Levenhuk N20 NG Prepared Slides Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty professionally prepared, stained and sealed slides, plus 24 blank slides and 40 cover slips for making your own. It's the set we'd add to any \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/compound-microscopes\" title=\"Compound microscopes\"\u003ecompound microscope\u003c\/a\u003e, and the natural next step once the five slides in Levenhuk's K50 starter kit have been looked at a dozen times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe twenty specimens cover the ground a school biology course does. From the plant and animal kingdoms there are a plant cell, an animal cell, mould, and mitosis in an onion root. From insects, a fruit fly at three stages (larva, chrysalis and adult). From animal tissue, striated and smooth muscle, bone, hyaline cartilage, loose connective tissue, a nerve in cross-section, nerve cells, a single-layer epithelium, a mammalian egg cell and sperm cells, and an egg in the early stages of division. And two blood smears, frog and human, which show the difference between nucleated and non-nucleated red cells at 400x.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe slides are standard 76 by 26 mm glass and fit any compound microscope with stage clips, including every one we sell. They don't suit a \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stereo-microscopes\" title=\"Stereo microscopes\"\u003estereo\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/digital-microscopes\" title=\"Digital microscopes with a screen\"\u003edigital\u003c\/a\u003e microscope, which light from above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe blanks and cover slips are for pond water, onion skin, cheek cells and anything else thin enough for light to pass through. Keep the prepared slides in their box between uses; they'll last for years. Covered by Levenhuk's two-year accessory warranty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Levenhuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67751591903596,"sku":"29277","price":22.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/5966\/2956\/files\/levenhuk_n20_ng_g8Uda1P.jpg?v=1792279021"},{"product_id":"levenhuk-n80-ng-prepared-slides-set","title":"Levenhuk N80 NG Prepared Slides Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eEighty prepared slides with an illustrated guide to what each one shows, plus 20 blank slides and 20 cover slips for making your own. It picks up where the 20-slide \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-n20-ng-prepared-slides-set\" title=\"Levenhuk N20 NG prepared slides set\"\u003eN20 NG set\u003c\/a\u003e stops, with four times as many specimens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe slides are grouped into animals, plants, fungi and everyday things. On the animal side there are a feather, cat fur, fish scales, frog and fish blood, rabbit heart, lung and brain, an ant, a butterfly wing, a fly's head and a bee's mandible, and microorganisms including daphnia, hydra, paramecium and planaria. The plant slides cover leaves, stems, roots, a lily anther and a fern prothallus, the fungi include lichen, penicillium, mould and yeast, and the everyday slides have salt and sugar crystals, nylon, silk, wool and cotton fibres, paper, toothpaste and natural yoghurt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey need a microscope that lights from below, which means any of our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/compound-microscopes\" title=\"Compound microscopes\"\u003ecompound microscopes\u003c\/a\u003e, and Levenhuk confirms them for the LabZZ M101, Rainbow 2L PLUS and Rainbow 50L PLUS. Top-lit models such as the stereo, digital and USB microscopes won't show them properly. The set is sold complete, and with careful storage the slides last for years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Levenhuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67757505446252,"sku":"66685","price":92.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/5966\/2956\/files\/N80_see_all_gPJQRo6.jpg?v=1792351300"},{"product_id":"levenhuk-n38-ng-prepared-slides-set","title":"Levenhuk N38 NG Prepared Slides Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirty-eight prepared slides of real biological material, plus 24 blank slides and 40 cover slips for making your own. It sits between the 20-slide \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-n20-ng-prepared-slides-set\" title=\"Levenhuk N20 NG prepared slides set\"\u003eN20 NG set\u003c\/a\u003e, whose specimens it includes, and the 80-slide \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-n80-ng-prepared-slides-set\" title=\"Levenhuk N80 NG prepared slides set\"\u003eN80 NG set\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe specimens cover plants (onion peel, a root cap, a lime twig, an anther and a geranium leaf), insects (a bee wing, mosquito mouthparts and drosophila at several stages), microorganisms (volvox, euglena and paramecium) and animal tissue, including muscle, nerve, bone and frog and chimpanzee blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe slides need a microscope that lights from below, so any of our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/compound-microscopes\" title=\"Compound microscopes\"\u003ecompound microscopes\u003c\/a\u003e. Levenhuk confirms them for the Rainbow 50L and the LabZZ M101 and says the DTX 500 can't show them. The cover slips are 0.13 to 0.17 mm thick.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Levenhuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67757505479020,"sku":"29278","price":46.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/5966\/2956\/files\/levenhuk_n38_ng.jpg?v=1792351302"},{"product_id":"levenhuk-g50-blank-slides","title":"Levenhuk G50 Blank Slides, 50 Pack","description":"\u003cp\u003eA box of 50 blank glass slides for making your own specimens, such as pond water, onion skin, cheek cells, a hair, or anything thin enough for light to pass through. Each slide is 76 by 25 mm and 1.0 to 1.2 mm thick, in clear glass of even thickness, with polished edges that reduce glare and the chance of a cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey fit any \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/compound-microscopes\" title=\"Compound microscopes\"\u003ecompound microscope\u003c\/a\u003e with stage clips, including every one we sell. Pair them with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-g100-cover-slips\" title=\"Levenhuk G100 cover slips\"\u003eG100 cover slips\u003c\/a\u003e, which Levenhuk makes to go with them. Levenhuk doesn't make slides with a cavity for hanging-drop work, and it says these aren't designed for high temperatures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Levenhuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67757506593132,"sku":"16281","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/5966\/2956\/files\/16281_levenhuk-g50-blank-slides_01.jpg?v=1792351372"},{"product_id":"levenhuk-g100-cover-slips","title":"Levenhuk G100 Cover Slips, 100 Pack","description":"\u003cp\u003eA box of 100 square glass cover slips, 24 by 24 mm and 0.13 to 0.17 mm thick, for covering a specimen on a blank slide. A cover slip holds a wet mount flat and keeps the objective dry, and at 400x it's often the difference between a sharp image and a blurry one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey're made to go with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-g50-blank-slides\" title=\"Levenhuk G50 blank slides\"\u003eG50 blank slides\u003c\/a\u003e and fit any \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/compound-microscopes\" title=\"Compound microscopes\"\u003ecompound microscope\u003c\/a\u003e. Levenhuk says they have no expiry date and need no special storage. The Rainbow 2L PLUS and 50L PLUS kits don't include cover slips, so this is the pack to add with either.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Levenhuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67757506625900,"sku":"16282","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/5966\/2956\/files\/16282_levenhuk-g100-cover-slips_01.jpg?v=1792351374"},{"product_id":"bresser-blank-slides-and-cover-slips","title":"Bresser Blank Slides and Cover Slips, 50 and 100 Pack","description":"\u003cp\u003eFifty blank glass slides, 76 by 26 mm, and 100 cover slips, 0.17 mm thick, for making your own slides of pond water, onion skin, cheek cells and anything else thin enough for light to pass through. Put a drop or a thin slice on the slide, lower a cover slip over it at an angle to keep out bubbles, and it's ready to look at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey fit any compound microscope, not only Bresser's, and 0.17 mm is the cover slip thickness the 40x and 100x objectives on most microscopes are designed for. It's the one pack in our range with slides and cover slips together; the Levenhuk \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-g50-blank-slides\" title=\"Levenhuk G50 blank slides\"\u003eG50 slides\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-g100-cover-slips\" title=\"Levenhuk G100 cover slips\"\u003eG100 cover slips\u003c\/a\u003e are sold separately.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bresser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67769487393132,"sku":"74503","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/5966\/2956\/files\/74503_bresser-blank-slides-cover-glass-50-100_00.jpg?v=1792429351"},{"product_id":"bresser-prepared-slides-set-100","title":"Bresser Prepared Slides Set, 100 Slides","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hundred prepared slides in a wooden box, labelled in English and German, with a printed list of contents. Most are stained for contrast. It's a bigger and more advanced set than our Levenhuk sets, with the sections and tissues that turn up in school and college biology, such as mitosis in an onion root tip, a human blood smear, human chromosomes, a cross-section of a corn stem, and lung, liver, kidney and spinal cord.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe range runs from bacteria, moulds, algae, diatoms and pollen, through plant stems, roots and leaves, to insect mouthparts and legs, hydra, planaria and daphnia, and around 30 animal and human tissue sections, among them heart and skeletal muscle, bone, stomach and lymph node.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe slides need a microscope that lights from below, so any \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/compound-microscopes\" title=\"Compound microscopes\"\u003ecompound microscope\u003c\/a\u003e, and many of the sections are at their best at 400x or more, which makes it a good match for the Erudit and Researcher models. It isn't a children's set; for a younger child, the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-n20-ng-prepared-slides-set\" title=\"Levenhuk N20 NG prepared slides set\"\u003eN20 NG\u003c\/a\u003e has 20 everyday specimens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bresser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67769505579372,"sku":"73765","price":113.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/5966\/2956\/files\/73765_bresser-prepared-slides-100pcs-with-case_00.jpg?v=1792429424"},{"product_id":"levenhuk-labzz-cp24-prepared-slides-set","title":"Levenhuk LabZZ CP24 Prepared Slides Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-four prepared slides for children, in card mounts with a round window and grouped by theme. They cover animals (mouse, hare, dog and sheep hair), plants (peanut stem, ficus leaf, onion skin and silverberry hair), insects (bee abdomen, honeybee leg, locust wing and housefly leg), pollen and spores (lily and pine pollen, bottlebrush and fern spores), tiny creatures (a plant louse, an ant, a brine shrimp egg and daphnia) and textiles (coloured threads, handmade paper, a fingerprint and Bemberg, a silky fibre).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey fit any microscope that lights from below, from the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-labzz-m101-microscope\" title=\"Levenhuk LabZZ M101 microscope\"\u003eLabZZ M101\u003c\/a\u003e up, and come in a sturdy card box. It's a smaller set than the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/levenhuk-n20-ng-prepared-slides-set\" title=\"Levenhuk N20 NG prepared slides set\"\u003eN20 NG\u003c\/a\u003e, which adds blank slides and cover slips for making your own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Levenhuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67769565512044,"sku":"72870","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/5966\/2956\/files\/72870_levenhuk-prepared-slides-set-labzz-cp24_00.jpg?v=1792429641"}],"url":"https:\/\/scopeandfield.com\/collections\/microscope-slides.oembed","provider":"Scope \u0026 Field","version":"1.0","type":"link"}