Charged Slides Used with Adhesives

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Charged Slides Used with Adhesives

You have both charged (plus) slides and adhesives, so using them together should make the tissue stick even better, right? Wrong! The nature of both methods is to attract ions from the tissue. When used together, the properties of both cancel each other out, essentially changing the positively changed slide into a plain glass slide.