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freeze etching

freeze etching

Freeze etching is a technique to expose the structure under ice on a freeze-fractured surface of a biological specimen, by sublimating the ice under vacuum.  After the structure is exposed, a replica is made from the fractured surface for TEM observation.  This technique is mainly used to observe the structures of cytoskeletons, organelles, etc. 

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