Is this even the right way to use crystal violet as a stain?

glennmagusharvey

(In the Tech category because this is a science procedure thing.)

In the lab manual:

Place a drop of the yeast culture onto a microscope slide using a pipet.  Ad a drop of crystal violet stain to the rop of yeast culture on the microscope slide.  [Then a]dd a cover slip over the yeast culture/stain fluid.

On the web:

• Place the slide with smear(s)s up on a rack in a staining tray. You
  may find it convenient to leave the clothes pin attached. Flood the
  slide with Gram's crystal violet so that all of the dried material is
  covered. It is good practice to flood the entire slide from edge to
  edge.
• After 60 sec pick up the slide using the clothes pin and
  rinse the smear with water by squirting the slide above the smear and
  letting the water wash
  over it until the water runs clear. To keep the slide "clean"
  you might rinse the bottom as well, and make sure you have not trapped
  stain underneath the clothes pin where you have grabbed the slide. Note
  that the smears will be stained a bright blue.

Another source on the web: (albeit a prepared slide, not a wet mount)

lrdgck

I dunno, but Crystal Violet is a good name for a rock band.

Stormtroper

I thought this was going to be about Steven Universe.

glennmagusharvey

lrdgck wrote: »

I dunno, but Crystal Violet is a good name for a rock band.

Also a good name for an MMX maverick too.

Bee

It sounds like it'd be one of the stupid X5 Guns'n'Roses mavericks.