Here is another diatom arrangement I made over the summer. 🙂 This one is a mixture of various species from quite a lot of places around the world. The central diatom is from Oamaru, New Zealand, the Isthmia surrounding it are from California and quite a few of the others are either from Hamburg (no fossils 😉) or from Dunkirk, Maryland. Kind of the who is who of diatom locations worldwide. 🙂 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What you might notice about this one is that it\u2019s not perfectly regular concerning the positions of the diatoms. That\u2019s actually due to my laziness \/ lack of time this summer and a few hot days over here in Northern Germany. 😂🙈 As always I used shellac as adhesive for the diatoms. Shellac only becomes sticky when you heat it, so normally when you leave an unfinished slide covered (to avoid dust) nothing happens and you can continue working and moving them around later. This time I waited too long however and on a very hot day the temperatures in my flat (under the roof) were apparently high enough to glue a few diatoms I had only positioned provisionally (probably around 40\u00b0C). When I noticed this a few weeks later when I wanted to continue working they could not be moved anymore and I had to add a few on the opposite sides to make it look halfway intentional. 😂 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hope you still like it, despite the slight imperfections. 😊<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Hier ist ein weiteres Diatomeen-Pr\u00e4parat aus diesem Sommer: 🙂 Es ist eine Mischung aus verschiedenen Arten von ziemlich vielen Fundorten auf der ganzen Welt. Die Kieselalge in der Mitte stammt aus Oamaru, Neuseeland, die Isthmia um sie herum aus Kalifornien und einige der anderen sind entweder aus Hamburg (keine Fossilien 😉 ) oder aus Dunkirk, Maryland. Sozusagen das Who is Who der besten Fundorte weltweit 🙂 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was vielleicht auff\u00e4llt, ist, dass die Position der Kieselalgen nicht ganz symmetrisch ist. Das liegt an meiner Faulheit \/ Zeitmangel in diesem Sommer und ein paar hei\u00dfen Tagen hier in Norddeutschland. 😂🙈 Wie immer habe ich Schellack als Kleber f\u00fcr die Kieselalgen verwendet. Schellack wird erst beim Erhitzen klebrig, so dass normalerweise, wenn man ein unfertiges Pr\u00e4parat abgedeckt l\u00e4sst (um Staub zu vermeiden), nichts passiert und man sp\u00e4ter weiterarbeiten und die Diatomeen verschieben kann. Diesmal habe ich jedoch zu lange gewartet, und an einem sehr hei\u00dfen Tag waren die Temperaturen in meiner Wohnung (unter dem Dach) offenbar hoch genug, um ein paar Diatomeen, die ich nur provisorisch positioniert hatte, festzukleben (wahrscheinlich um die 40\u00b0C). Als ich das ein paar Wochen sp\u00e4ter bemerkte, lie\u00dfen sie sich nicht mehr verschieben und ich musste ein paar \u00e4hnliche Diatomeen auf den gegen\u00fcberliegenden Seiten hinzuf\u00fcgen, damit es halbwegs gewollt aussah. 😂<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ich hoffe, das Pr\u00e4parat gef\u00e4llt euch trotz der kleinen Unvollkommenheiten 😊.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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