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Why is important to know what magnigication you are using when looking at a specimen under the microscope?
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The area of the specimen seen when looking through the microscope is called?
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What does 150X mean for a microscope?
It means the specimen you are looking at is being magnified 150 times its normal size.
The area of the specimen seen when looking through the microscope is the?
It depends on the particular microscope, and the magnification being used. Without these details, this question cannot be answered.
What does the illuminator do on a microscope?
To provide light which makes specimen visible .
Which type of microscope starts with s?
The scanning electron microscope is probably the answer you are looking for, in which a beam of electrons is bounced from the surface of the specimen - usually prepared with an incredibly thin film of metal over its surface to make the electrons bounce from the surface better and not penetrate the specimen too far - and the electrons imaged
Advantages and disadvantages of light microscope over electron microscope?
they are relatively smaller, electron ones are biggerthey are easy to usethey allow you to see coloured images, electron ones don'tyou can observe live specimen, specimen has to be dead with electron microscopesi was trying to view the answer in relation to transmmission
What is the function of a microscope's stage clip?
The stage clip holds the the specimen slide firmly on the stage and is needed if the microscope is tilted.
Why is near point accommodation important and why is it needed?
reading and looking through a microscope
What is an instrument that allows light to pass through the specimen and uses two lens to from an image called?
The answer you are looking for is called a dissecting or stereo microscope. These provide a lower magnification range in comparison to compound microscopes and they use two sets of lenses, the eyepiece and the objective lenses. these then provide a 3D image.
What is the liquid used to stain the specimen on a microscope?
There are hundreds stains for this light microscope. You can see some of them at the bottom link: http://www.laddresearch.com/General_Catalog/Chapter_2/LMStains/lmstains.html To select a stain first you have to now, what are looking for? Nucleus, membrane, protein, carbonhydrates...
What is the function of the stage of a compound microscope?
A device put onto the stage to allow precise adjustments of the slide
When looking at a specimen for the fir ts time under a microscope do you view with high power objective or lowest objective fir ts?
first view with low power then gradually increase the power. hope it helped you!
