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On a microscope with the usual 3-lens turret it is usual to use the objective lens with the lowest magnification to first examine your specimen. This gives a wider overall view of the subject, and will allow you to choose the particular detail that best suits your study. You may then move on to a higher magnification, if necessary, to study finer detail. If you started with the highest magnification, your fine focus will be uncertain, and you risk the front of the objective lens coming into contact with the sample slide. This could damage your specimen, and may damage the front of the lens.
An electron microscope would certainly show more detail than a compound microscope. An electron microscope can zoom up to 1,000,000x.
The size of the cell remains the same no matter what power objective is used. However, the magnification changes between these two objective lenses, with the low power objective magnifying it less than the high power objective.
You have turn the fine adjustment knob to see the cell.
so you can see things in more detail
Why are you even asking this
To increase the magnification of the specimen so you can see more detail.
The high power objective on a microscope increases the magnification of the specimen, which allows you to see more detail. It allows you to see a close up of only a small area of the specimen being viewed.
In microbiology, the most commonly used objective on a microscope is 100x. This is because this is the closest yet detailed magnification where you can see a specimen. Higher magnifications lead to a closer look but less detail.
The microscope has to be one of the greatest inventions. It is indispensable in the laboratory because it gives people the ability to see in minute detail what is not visible to the naked eye.
A microscope magnifies an object so that it can be seen in closer detail.
On a microscope with the usual 3-lens turret it is usual to use the objective lens with the lowest magnification to first examine your specimen. This gives a wider overall view of the subject, and will allow you to choose the particular detail that best suits your study. You may then move on to a higher magnification, if necessary, to study finer detail. If you started with the highest magnification, your fine focus will be uncertain, and you risk the front of the objective lens coming into contact with the sample slide. This could damage your specimen, and may damage the front of the lens.
An electron microscope would certainly show more detail than a compound microscope. An electron microscope can zoom up to 1,000,000x.
microscope or for more detail an electron microscope
Scanning electron microscope.
scanning electron microscope
two-photo microscope