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    Microscope (redirect from Microscopes)
    invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope. There are many types of microscopes, and they may be grouped in different ways. One way is to describe the...
    31 KB (3,699 words) - 15:02, 20 May 2024
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    system of lenses to generate magnified images of small objects. Optical microscopes are the oldest design of microscope and were possibly invented in their...
    52 KB (5,972 words) - 03:47, 11 April 2024
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    visible light, electron microscopes have a much higher resolution of about 0.1 nm, which compares to about 200 nm for light microscopes. Electron microscope...
    46 KB (5,370 words) - 19:19, 21 May 2024
  • to overcome some limitations of traditional wide-field fluorescence microscopes. In a conventional (i.e., wide-field) fluorescence microscope, the entire...
    46 KB (5,298 words) - 06:21, 9 April 2024
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    started to explore microbial life with his microscope. Using single-lensed microscopes of his own design and make, Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe...
    49 KB (5,354 words) - 07:05, 30 May 2024
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    000 times, about 250 times the magnification limit of the best light microscopes. SEM samples have to be small enough to fit on the specimen stage, and...
    66 KB (8,138 words) - 06:46, 19 May 2024
  • A 4Pi microscope is a laser scanning fluorescence microscope with an improved axial resolution. With it the typical range of the axial resolution of 500–700 nm...
    9 KB (1,149 words) - 14:50, 16 June 2022
  • century, known as an expert lens grinder and instrument maker. Compound microscopes such as this first appeared in Europe around 1620 including one demonstrated...
    5 KB (680 words) - 05:37, 22 May 2021
  • Children's literature portal Men, Microscopes, and Living Things is a children's book written by the American author Katherine Shippen and illustrated...
    2 KB (107 words) - 02:04, 30 April 2024