Muriatic Acid Wash

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Muriatic Acid Wash

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Been away from the scope last week since I had a cataract procedure for my left eye with the right eye coming up next week. Quite an experience, but it's mostly the problems of having a new and improved eye and a marginal eye.
Anyway, it gave me some time to experiment with acid wash of pond water. This is a set from water treated with Muriatic Acid, aka Hydrochloric Acid (HCl). It pretty much bleaches various things such as chlorophyll and the pigments in Arcella tests. In diatoms, it bleaches out the chlorophyll but leaves the structure of the chromoplasts intact.

Amphora and Amphora fission.
Muriatic Amphora 1.jpg
Amphora fission Muriatic.jpg
Diatom showing bleaching of chromoplasts
Diatom Muriatic.jpg
Odontinium
Muriatic odontinium.jpg
Amoeba test. The acid doesn't break down whatever the cement is the amoeba uses to fabricate its test.
Muriatic Test.jpg
Incidentally, these are all color shots.

Mike
Michael Reese Much FRMS EMS Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

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