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Slide 80
Notes: This "ground bone" specimen displays a piece of bone from which all organic material has been removed and the remaining mineral matrix prepared by grinding a small chip of bone into a slab thin enough to transmit light (hence "ground bone", where "ground" is the past-tense of "grind"). The gritty texture which may be observed within most Haversian canals of these specimens is bone dust, an artifact of this preparation by grinding. [Other slides of bone in our set represent decalcified bone from which the mineral has been removed, while leaving behind cells and organic matrix.]
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