Microscopes
Microscopes are used to look at things that are not visible to the naked eye. This category would demonstrate how microscopes work and information about different kinds of microscope.
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Kanmani RajanThe purpose of the arm is so that when you put your eye to the lens, that it doesn't move, and it holds the lens still so the...
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First of all which microscope do you want to know the parts to? A scanning electron microscope? Transition electron microscope?...
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Microscopes The first compound microscope was made in 1590 in The Netherlands. Hans Lippershey, Sacharias Jansen, and Hans...
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synonym: magnifying glass antonym: telescope
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A microbe is a microbe because it is a micro-organism.Which means small(micro)living things(organisms)
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Stains are made of chemicals with loose ends. These ends stick to loose ends on what they stain. A stain is a pigment that has...
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The two main types of microscopes are light microscopes and electron microscopes.
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The true answer is lenses because lenses enlarge a specimen.
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Cell Biology Cell biology is the science of studying how cells function such as their reproduction metabolism, and their internal...
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well, it helped people to understand the symptons of the world such as diseases make medicines explore cells etc.
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A compound microscope uses light and an array of lenses with very short focal lengths to magnify an object. An electron...
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200X 20X * 10X The 10X is the ocular lens of compound microscopes. Where your eyes go.
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Anton von Leeuwenhoek the inventor of microscope............ Microscopes are used specifically in biology because the...
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The diaphragm is a curved sheet of smooth muscle which separates the thorax from the abdomen. When it contracts, the diaphragm...
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scientist because they have to look close at germs.
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Because of Newton's Third Law of Motion: Every action has an equal an opposite reaction and and hydrolic pressure. When you press...
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To view microorganisms living in another organism that cannot be seen by the naked eye.Microscope is a laboratory tool used to...
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It is to make sure that you know how to make a wet mount. At least, in honors biology it is
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A transmission electron microscope.
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Leeuwenhoek discovered blood cells and recognized them as living units of life. Hooke examined a thin slice of dead cork and...
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A light microscope uses a light source but a electron microscope has beams of electrons focused by magnetic lenses. - - - The...
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the solar system is made up of planets moons and the sun
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Course Adjustment and Fine Adjustment Knobs.
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dude he invented it
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Visual inspection of cells (bacterial, cell cultures), immuno-staining (localisation of a protein of interest), microinjection,...
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Yes - they differ in the number of lens that they use. They are both forms of light microscopes, but a simple microscope uses one...
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Thomas Edison invented the carbon microscope from 1877 to 1878.
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The eyepeice
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Not the classic types; to observe atoms usually are used AFM (Atomic force microscopes)
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Yes I think it was invented by Canada.
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Objective lenses you can see 3 - 4 objective lenses attached to the end of the tube.
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A compound microscope, simply put, is a microscope that utilizes multiple lenses, as compared to a simple microscope which only...
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Microscope Parts and Functions A microscopes function is to see things at different levels, magnifications e.g. cells that can...
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The first REAL microscope was actually discovered by the Dutch, after the Romans had started testing glasses by and looking...
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The concave and the convection of the lenses.
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It makes the substance you're looking at clear, and not blurry.It basically puts it into focus.
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The basic microscope is an optical instrument that uses a lens or a combination of lenses to produce magnified images of small...
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Advantages:· Good for educational purposes · Saves time· Can print out or save imagesDisadvantages: requires power source...
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AnswerAn electron microscope can reach a far greater magnifiction than a conventional microscope.It is obvious that the largest...
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There are many. Simple microscope, compound microscope, light microscope, scanning electron microscope, Transmission Electron...
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A microscope is an optical and sometimes electronic instrument used for enlarging and enhancing the view of small objects,...
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A microscope allows the human eye to examine tiny particles that otherwise cannot be seen.
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It looks kind of like a curved bar with a line through the center.
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Microscopes improved our lives because some peoples with cancer could die without then. Microscopes helped doctors look at cells...
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To magnify the specific microbes that are being viewed. Most microbes you cannot see with the naked eye.
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it is used to place an item on and put it under a microscope to view.
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kilo = 1,000 one kilogram = 1,000 grams one kilometer = 1,000 meters
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advantages:easy to useinexpensive (comparatively)can look at live specimens (but its kinda hard to do so)disadvantages:cannot...
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Monocular has a lens for just one eye, stereo for two eyes to see simultaneously.
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the flashligth in your tooth fairy
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Depth of Field can be demonstrated using a lot of the same object in line or around focusing on just one of the objects. Like a...
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no hans lippershey did
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Both the later Greeks and the Romans experimented with the magnifying power of curved glass surfaces, which had been produced in...
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AnswerThe major difference in practice is resolution: the amount of detail that can be discerned in the image.A light microscope...
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A light microscope uses a series of lenses to focus light allowing small objects to appear larger. A compound microscope works as...
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The speciman you are viewing must be in a vacuum, and be coated with a metal film, therefore the speciman cant be alive and if...
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The simple answer is that microscopes allow the invisible to become visible. Many items that cannot be seen with the unaided eye...
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Microscopes were thought of by the First-century Romans who experimented with different shapes of glass and found the convex...
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Compound Microscope · Compound microscopes can be found in most biology and science classrooms. They are electrically operated...
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they usees mirros and light to see close up
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: Electron Microscopes are scientific instruments that use a beam of highly energetic electrons to examine objects on a very fine...
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(STM) uses an electron beam not only to image things, getting resolution at the atomic level, but actually manipulate them...
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Scanning electron microscope Transmission electron microscopy A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron...
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I would imagine because the wavelength of electrons is not in the visible region
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simple first one is: their both different in quality. For example, a light microscope would use sunlight as its source of...
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It is easier to view because it already has a light source. Basically you can not use living tissue with Electron Microscopes,...
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parfocal
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Magnified lense! or magnifier.
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Microscopes are used to see very small (microscopic) things ie. micro organisms bacteria etc. Microscopes are used to learn...
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Which microscope? Expand on your question.
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Light microscopes use light whereas electron microscopes use electrons. This is because light has quite a long vave length -...
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you can see bacteria and study viruses
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they give you a very close look at particales so you can see the details and how big they are
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decreasing focal length of the lens
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noit can be either 50x 100x 200x 400x 10x on a microcope as we are studying this in year 7 at parmiters high school in garston!
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The answer is Hans Janssen and his son Zacharias.
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Microscopes are be used to look at things in better detail, or just used to find something that the human eye can't see. The...
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magnifying glasses of outrageously high power!
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microscopes are used in labs, medical field, surgeries, astronomy and crime investigation field
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Electron microscopes and what ... Light microscopes produce magnified images by focusing visible light rays. Electron...
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well i think that the disadvantage of the transmission electron microscope over the compound microscope is that it is way too...
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Microscope. A scientist might use a microscope. Well actually, it depends on the size of the animal. If it is microscopic, then...
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The resolution decreases.
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1Make sure your slide, cover slip and medicine dropper are all clean, dry and dust-free. 2Place your flat slide on a clean, dry...
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because its to small to see
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It separates the objective lens from the eyepiece (occular lens) and keeps out ambient light.
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Advantages - 1) there are 2 eyepieces which means you don't have to strain your eyes so much and makes it easier to focus on the...
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the first person to make a microscope isZach who is the fathe of Zacharias Janssen. the first person to make a microscope...
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The advantages of electron microscopes are : -Higher magnification -
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A stain that differentiates the elements of a cell. examples are acid fast stain and gram stain
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