[NHCOLL-L:4836] Spurr resin embedded specimens

[Judith Price]

Does anyone have any guidelines or caveats about storage of specimens embedded for electron microscopy in Spurr (or Spurr's) resin?  Apparently it's an epoxide resin, and the sections are mounted on pieces of copper grid.  The samples I just received are in styrene snap-closure boxes with internal slots holding the little grid pieces.  I just wonder if I need to store these more carefully than just bunging them in the same type cabinet as my fluid collections.

 

Thanks

Judith

 

Judith C. Price

Secretary, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

Assistant Collections Manager, Invertebrates / Gestionnaire adjointe des collections invertébrés

Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la Nature

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