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    The plane-wedge knife is a rigid, wedge-shaped knife used for cutting hard materials like paraffin wax blocks, frozen sections, and synthetic resins. It has straight, parallel sides and is 100mm long, making it stable for cutting tough specimens. While it allows faster cutting than other knives, it does not allow serial cuts and thin sections below 8 microns. It is commonly used for sectioning hard materials embedded in paraffin or frozen.

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    The plane-wedge knife is a rigid, wedge-shaped knife used for cutting hard materials like paraffin wax blocks, frozen sections, and synthetic resins. It has straight, parallel sides and is 100mm long, making it stable for cutting tough specimens. While it allows faster cutting than other knives, it does not allow serial cuts and thin sections below 8 microns. It is commonly used for sectioning hard materials embedded in paraffin or frozen.

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    The plane-wedge knife is a rigid, wedge-shaped knife used for cutting hard materials like paraffin wax blocks, frozen sections, and synthetic resins. It has straight, parallel sides and is 100mm long, making it stable for cutting tough specimens. While it allows faster cutting than other knives, it does not allow serial cuts and thin sections below 8 microns. It is commonly used for sectioning hard materials embedded in paraffin or frozen.

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    Plane Wedge Knife

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    The plane-wedge knife is a rigid, wedge-shaped knife used for cutting hard materials like paraffin wax blocks, frozen sections, and synthetic resins. It has straight, parallel sides and is 100mm long, making it stable for cutting tough specimens. While it allows faster cutting than other knives, it does not allow serial cuts and thin sections below 8 microns. It is commonly used for sectioning hard materials embedded in paraffin or frozen.

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    MICROTOME KNIVES

    3. Plane-Wedge Knife

     Description:
    - The wedge shaped knife has more rigidity than plane-concave knife and biconcave
    knife and can therefore be used for cutting harder materials. Because of thick nature
    of wedge of the wedge at the tip, this knife cannot be ground be ground as sharp as
    profile.
    - The plane-wedge knife is usually 100mm in length. It has both sides straight,
    recommended for frozen sections or for cutting extremely hard and tough
    specimens embedded in paraffin blocks, using base sledge type or sliding
    microtome. This type of knife is more stable and find use in hard materials,
    such as in epoxy or cryogenic sample cutting. It is usually provided with backs,
    to maintain the correct bevel angle throughout honing. Detachable handles
    maybe attached to the knife during sharpening.

     Use: it is commonly used for cutting sections from paraffin wax embedded
    material, frozen sections, cryostat sections and for small, synthetic resin
    embedded material.
     Advantages:
    - A wedge works by separating something apart. Some advantages of a wedge is that
    it can take something apart that is really big and it is easier to move. Another is that
    it is a fast way to get something apart.
     Disadvantages:
    - Does not allow serial cuts, which slows down the process.
    - Exposure of the blade can cause accidents.
    - It is almost impossible to obtain sections with a thickness of less than 8 microns.

    References:
    Mohammed,F. et al. (2012). Microtomes and Microtome Knives: A review and
    proposed classification. Retrieved on February 24, 2020 from
    https//www.researchgate.net/publication/258221245_Microtomes_
    and_Microtome_knives_A_Review_and_proposed_classification

    SimpleMachines. (n,d). Wedge. Retrieved on February 24, 2020 from


    https://meanjoegreen18simplemachines.weebly.com/wedge.html

    Gregorios, J. H. ( 2017). Histopathologic Techniques. Miami Florida.

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