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by BlarfMcFlarf 77 days ago
It doesn’t have to be an identical material, just one that has similar properties in attracting and holding contaminants.
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So if you're studying slices of e.g. brain to look for microplastic particles, what would be a material with similar properties, that you would then go through the same steps of preserving, preparing, slicing, mounting, etc.?

I'm genuinely curious. Are there standard widely used stand-in materials for animal flesh, for plant materials, etc.?