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Defintions of Microscope

A microscope is an instrument used to see objects too small for the naked eye by using lenses to magnify samples. There are many types of microscopes including optical microscopes which use light, as well as electron microscopes and scanning probe microscopes. The science of using microscopes to investigate small objects is called microscopy.

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Defintions of Microscope

A microscope is an instrument used to see objects too small for the naked eye by using lenses to magnify samples. There are many types of microscopes including optical microscopes which use light, as well as electron microscopes and scanning probe microscopes. The science of using microscopes to investigate small objects is called microscopy.

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A microscope (from the Ancient Greek: , mikrs, "small" and , skopen, "to look" or

"see") is an instrument used to see objects that are too small for the naked eye. The science of
investigating small objects using such an instrument is calledmicroscopy. Microscopic means
invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope.
There are many types of microscopes, the most common and first to be invented is the optical
microscope which uses light to image the sample. Other major types of microscopes are the electron
microscope (both the transmission electron microscope and thescanning electron microscope) and
the various types of scanning probe microscope.

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