You should not "dry" slides in the MW. The paraffin in the sections is "transparent" to microwaves and what you are going to do is locally heat (and I mean heat) the remaining water underneath the sections but you are not going to really melt the paraffin. There is no real good substitute for a convection oven to dry the sections. René J.
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