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Thanks. Do you cover the flask to avoid evaporation ? If you do, with what ? Did you tried it yourself? How many cycles of heating and swirling did you do?

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Looks like a chiton. I think you're right. The "white ridges" are apparently the remains of the articulated shell plates that normally cover it. This one seems to correspond to photos of the "gumboot" chiton.

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Thank you for the response and the Kohler info; yes, I am using cover slip; "plastic", not glass; glass is on my short list of supplies needed, along with some of these chemicals you have shared. I don't know why, or how I came about my "water ...

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Are you mounting the soil samples under a cover slip with a drop of water? That can help, as living protozoa can swim a bit away from soil particles, making them easier to see. Also, some of these critters move fast, so using a solution of methylcellulose ...

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... that light is affected by gravity? bet you didn't know that. So evolution is only a theory because we can not know for sure all the details that cover billions of years, I'm guessing you do not know the details of the last 10 years as well as the detail are know and proven for the evolutionary ...

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