Sandra: The volume of water under the section onto slide are very small for microwave heating and this water cannot be heated adequately. Paraffin is transparent for microwave and therefore instead drying of slides you will have a damaged magnetron. Never dry paraffin sections in MWO! Maxim Peshkov, Russia, Taganrog.
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Harrison, Sandra C. <sandra.harris...@va.gov> wrote: From: Harrison, Sandra C. <sandra.harris...@va.gov> Subject: RE: [Histonet] nuclear bubbling To: "Histonet" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 5:27 PM How about microwaving to dry slides? Can that cause nuclear bubbling? When you say completely drained off, does that mean your slides have to be completely dry prior to placing them in the oven? Thanks, Sandy mailto:maxim...@mail.ru _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet