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You can see atoms using a scanning tunneling microscope?
The needle doesn't actually touch the atoms, but you can their outlines.
How are light microscopes and electron microscopes are different?
Light microscopes use light zo you can see close up but they are not as powerful. Electron microscopes use of coarse electrons and thats when you see the really close up of cells.
How do microscopes see small things?
Microscopes act like a magnifying glass, only they are much more powerful.
How can microscopes see small objects?
Your phrasing is a bit sloppy. Microscopes do not see anything. People can use microscopes to enable them to see extremely small objects. Microscopes use lenses to bend light in such a way as to magnify images. A microscope is more powerful than a magnifying glass because more than one lens is used, in series. The light is bent, and then bent again, for even more bending.
John Dalton used a scanning tunneling microscope to observe individual atoms?
No. John Dalton was alive in the 1800s. There were no electron microscopes at that time.
Can compound microscopes see atoms?
No. No matter how powerful an optical microscope is, it can never be used to see atoms. Atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light. You can, however, view atoms using an electron microscope.
How electron microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopes how contributed to the understanding of atoms?
Electron microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopes gives us a greater understanding of atoms by being able to see the atom itself, and lets us see some atomic reactions.
Why are microscopes important to scientists?
So that they can see atoms and cells and other tiny things like particles
What have microscopes discovered?
Microscopes have helped discover everything that is too small to see with your eyes. Conventional microscopes like the ones you would use in schools to look at cells with helped us to discover.cells. They also help scientists to see smaller components of larger objects. Electron microscopes (extraordinarily expensive) were only invented in 1933, but these allowed us to see MUCH smaller things such as atoms and the individual particles that make up atoms.
Can atoms be viewed with microscopes?
yes
When are electron microscopes used?
looking at atoms
You can see atoms using a scanning tunneling microscope?
The needle doesn't actually touch the atoms, but you can their outlines.
What evidence indicates that electrons move around the nucleus in definite pathways?
the evidence is that when you look through microscopes you can see the different atoms and see the parts of them
What characteristics do different microscope have?
There are many microscopes. The difference of microscopes is that many of them use different things to view. Some use a beam of light, and some are similar to a telescope. Some can even see atoms.
Can you see the atoms of elements with a powerful school microscope?
No, you cannot see individual atoms of elements with a school microscope. Atoms are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light, so they cannot be resolved by optical microscopes. Specialized techniques such as scanning electron microscopy or atomic force microscopy are needed to visualize atoms.
What can microscopes do?
Microscopes magnify things so that you can visualize what you wouldn't be able to see with the naked eye. Microscopes are very helpful in scientific research to see cells etc...
Why are microscopes important to us?
Microscopes are useful so you can see cells.
