Can you please identify what is in this semen sample ?

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Nonam3t
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Can you please identify what is in this semen sample ?

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Pau
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What magnification?

I can't see sperm cells.

At the centre of the first image it seems a paper fiber.
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Pau wrote:At the centre of the first image it seems a paper fiber.
Likewise in the second. In the third and fourth, the large blobs are probably air bubbles.

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Post by phil m »

I think he's focused on a diffuser or ground glass in the illuminator's optical path.

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