Impregnation of Rocks for Sectioning

Silver Impregnation for Electron Microscopy

Heavy metal impregnation of specimens for electron microscopy offers a means for differential "staining" of various tissue components and cellular constituents. Of many silver impregnation methods, one of the most useful is Gomori's silver methenamine (1) after periodic acid oxidation (PA-SM) (2, 3). Several authors have applied silver impregnation to electron microscopy (4-7), mainly for the d...

Characterization of the pore structure of reservoir rocks with the aid of serial sectioning analysis, mercury porosimetry and network simulation

Processes of ̄uid transport through underground reservoirs are closely related with microscopic properties of the pore structure. In the present work, a relatively simple method is developed for the determination of the topological and geometrical parameters of the pore space of sedimentary rocks, in terms of chamber-and-throat networks. Several parameters, such as the chamber-diameter distribu...

Precursors of impregnation

– The progression of a liquid inside a porous medium often involves two macroscopic fronts: a main one, at the bottom, which saturates the medium; and a much thinner one, ahead, which propagates using the fine structures of the porous material. We discuss here different characteristics of this precursor. We show in particular how it can move faster than the main front, although it follows confi...

The Impregnation of Neurofibrils *

The importance of neurofibrillar impregnations in the study of the nervous system needs no emphasis. However, the silver methods currently used involve such a complex of variables that the results are by no means constant. The present communication is devoted to the problem of interpretation of results, together with certain fundamental relations between brain tissue and silver solution. The mo...

Sectioning of tissue for electron microscopy.