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Without refraction, lenses would not be able to magnify an image.

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Q: How does refraction help a microscope?
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Does a microscope work due to reflection?

Microscope works due to refraction.


What does the microscope use to form images?

For an optical microscope, the principle of refraction, in its lenses.


How are reflection and refraction involved in how the microscope works?

Reflection helps in directing light to specimen and to eye.Refraction help to condense light.


How do the lenses of a microscope make an object look larger?

Refraction


What instrument was first used to see a cell?

It was an extremely simple refraction microscope


What part of the microscope are responsible for refraction?

I think the a mirror and the Lightning that need to be bright ok


Name five things which work by refraction?

Telescopes, magnifying glass, spectacles, microscope, camera. There are your five things =)


Where would you use refraction in life?

If you wear eyeglasses or contact lenses, then you depend on the refraction of light every minute you're awake and have them on. It's also kind of important if you ever want to use a telescope, a microscope, a magnifying glass, or a camera. To be perfectly honest with you, the eyes in your head could not work without refraction.


How did the compound microscope help the scientists in discovering the cell?

It allowed them to observe the cell via direct magnification. Single lenses powerful enough to reach this level of magnification would be impractically large, while small compound lenses can magnify the image using progressive refraction.


How does refraction change light?

What is Refraction?? What is Refraction??


How did the invention of the microscope help the classification of organisms?

The microscope gave conclusions and observations to the cell theory.


How does the microscope help in the scientists?

Microscope helps the scientists by magnifying the objects which are not visible to naked eye.