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Can you see the atoms of elements with a powerful school microscope?
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y ago
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.
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Do atoms and moleclue's look spherical inside a microscope?
Atoms and molecules are to small to see under a microscope.
What is the unit of weight for elements?
Atoms are the basic units of elements.
According to Dalton's postulate how do atoms relate to elements?
Elements are formed from atoms.
What is the study of elements. atoms. and molecules called?
A chemist studies elements, atoms,and molecules
What type of microscope is used to show atoms?
The scanning tunneling microscope has a small probe which actually more like "feels" the size of the atoms and reads this out on a computer screen. The probe can pick up individual atoms. IBM used a STM years ago to spell I B M with uranium atoms and took a picture of it. But one does not actually directly "see" the atoms.
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.
You can see atoms using a scanning tunneling microscope?
The needle doesn't actually touch the atoms, but you can their outlines.
What is one important advantage an optical microscope has over a more powerful electron microscope?
It is cheaper and used to observe larger objects. Electron microscopes look at much smaller things such as atoms.
Which instrument do scientists use to observe DNA?
Usually, a scanning electron microscope is used to observe atoms.
Do atoms and moleclue's look spherical inside a microscope?
Atoms and molecules are to small to see under a microscope.
What are the tools that scientists used to observe atoms?
They could use an electron microscope or an STM (scanning tunneling microscope)
How powerful of a microscope do you need to see a atom?
You cannot see an atom visually with a microscope. They're smaller (quite a bit smaller, actually) than visual light waves. The instrument that's used to "see" atoms is called a scanning tunneling microscope, but it doesn't use visible light, it uses electrical potentials and the pictures are generated by computer processing of the data.
What is the world's strongest microscope and what can it measure?
the electron microscope can measure atoms
What microscope lets you see individual atoms?
electron tunneling microscope
What do you use a electron microscope for?
To see atoms or other extremely small things that you can not see in a light microscope. Even with an electron microscope, atoms are still barely visible.
Why are atoms and elements alike?
Because the differences in atoms make different elements. Elements are multiple of similar atoms.
can a scientist see atoms?
They can't see atoms with a naked eye, but they can use an electron microscope or a STM (scanning tunneling microscope).
