answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

Convex lense

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What type of lens does the magnifying glass use?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

What is the use of biconvex?

Magnifying glass is used with this lens


If you wanted to closely examine the leaf of a plant which type of lens would you use?

Magnifying glass convex lenses


What are 3 objects that use a lens to function?

Your eyes, eye glasses, and a magnifying glass.


What microscope uses two of more glass lenses to magnify living or prepared slides?

All microscopes use more than 1 lens. A magnifying device with only 1 lens is called a magnifying glass.


Who created the magnifying glass?

Roger Bacon, an Englishman and a lecturer at the University of Oxford born in the early 1200s, most often receives credit for the first known use and descriptions of a magnifying glass or lens.


Why is a glass cannot be use as a lens?

A "lens" is "glass". However, lens glass is quite different from a drinking glass. making a lens u must consider: magnifying power clarity color transmission These features involve: getting the geometry right minimizing imperfections making the right formula with the proper additives


What would you use to magnify a tiny beetle?

By using a hand lens/magnifying glass or by using a microscope Olga Uganhoffen


What lens do you use to see the least amount of area?

A magnifying lens


How can you tell if something is so magnified?

in a magnifying glass the glass is special type of glass. glasses lense are made of lint glass. magnifying glass is made of a thick glass. telescopes and magnifying glasses both use thicker glass than the usual. hope i helped you.


What mirror is used in a magnifying mirror?

we can use convex lens(having tapered ends) for that. but the magnifying capability depends on the power the lens. A magnifying glass works by creating a magnified virtual image of an object behind the lens. The distance between the lens and the object must be shorter than the focal lenght of the lens for this to occur. Otherwise, the image appears smaller and inverted, and can be used to project images onto surfaces.


A magnifying glass is an example of what lens?

Plano Convexif its for penn foster it's a CONVERGING lens.just took the test.


How magnification can increase?

Use a magnifying lens. (concave)