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Q: Why should oil not touch the 40X lens of a microscope?
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How many times will a microscope lens with a power of 40X magnify an object?

40X


What is the objective lens with the greatest magnification in a microscope?

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Magnification of a light microscope with an objective lens of 40x?

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When you put away a compound microscope what power should the objective lens be set at?

lowest power, i think 40x


What is a high power objective in a microscope?

The high power objective in a microscope is the largest lens in the microscope.


What is high power objectives in microscope?

The high-power objective on a microscope is larger lens with higher magnifying power. (40x)


What is the 40 objective lens on a microscope?

The 40x objective lens is one of the (usually) 3 objective lenses. It magnifies the image by 40x (hence the name). However, the image you view doesn't have a magnification of 40. There is the ocular lens, which typically is 5x or 10x, in addition to the objective lens.


What is the total magnification of a compound microscope?

The ocular lens are 10x magnification. Objective lens are 4x, 10x, 40x, 100x magnification. So once an objective lens is selected, the total magnification would be given by its product with the 10x magnification of the ocular lens. For example, if objective lens selected is 40x, total magnification would be: (10x)(40x)=400x total.


How do you determine what the magnification of the specimen is?

In a light microscope magnification is varied by using different lenses to refract the light. In an electron microscope magnification is varied by altering the configurations of magnetic fields to bend the electron beam.


What is a lower power objective?

The lower power objective is the lens on the microscope that gives you the lowest magnification. The exact magnification is 40x


Microscope with an eyepiece lens of 15x and an objective lens of 40x would have a total magnification of 600 um 500cm 60x or 600x?

its 600 you just multiply the numbers


What is the magnification of the objectives of the microscope?

The magnification of the objective lens is 10x. The magnification of the scanning lens is 4x. Therefore if you are viewing an object under scanning power, the total magnification is 40x.