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Thank you, that's very helpful. I wonder whether Cargille is reading this posting :-)

Judy


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We actually just ran into this problem at out lab as well. We found that the cargille 
has a strong moth ball like odor. The general consensus was that we could not deal 
with the odor. The closest oil that cargille carries with out the odor has background 
fluorescence. After our test (with confocal and widefield / on multiple brand 
microscope (zeiss, olympus, and leica) ) we found that the zeiss oil has the best 
performance overall for all of the microscope. We did not have leica oil to test. We 
tested the delta vision, zeiss, olympus, and two cargille oils. 
Hope this helps.