Dustin handed Don the sanitized petri-dish and observed with curious fascination as Don poured the strange heated mixture into the petri-dish and stirred it with a metal rod. Don added a level spoonful of white powder and the weird concoction began to lightly smoke.
"Cool," Dustin said, mesmerized with the experiment. "What are we making?"
"It's a specimen preservation liquid. We just drop the specimen in the liquid, and it will be preserved indefinitely as the clear liquid hardens as solid as a rock," Don explained. "Reach over there and hand me that jar on that counter."
Dustin grabbed the little jar, and noticed a colorful tiny lady-bug crawling around on the bottom of the jar.
"Do we put the specimen in the liquid while it's still alive?" Dustin asked with a mischievous grin.
"Yes, the specimen will preserve much better if it is still alive when we add it to the hardening mixture," Don answered.
"It really sucks to be you right now," Dustin said to the tiny bug inside the small jar, and laughs.
"Yeah, it's definitely not a pleasant experience," Don explained. "But it's just a bug."
Don poured the clear liquid into a clear square mold and instructed Dustin to drop the bug into the deadly liquid. Dustin unscrewed the lid of the small jar, tilted it and the woeful little insect fell helplessly into the still hot slowly hardening liquid.
The little bug tried frantically to escape but it slowly sank into the life-ending mixture.
"It's so cool how the specimen sinks to the exact center of the liquid," Dustin exclaimed in amazement as he watched the bug's last movements of life.
"It has to be mixed just right for that to happen," Don proudly explained. "And we got it perfect this time. In about an hour, the mixture will completely harden and the insect will be preserved forever."
"I wish we had some more specimens," Don said. "We've still got quite a bit of the mixture left. I hate for it to go to waste. Oh well, I instructed some of the students to bring in some live specimens for their next class. We should have plenty by tomorrow."
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