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Can atoms be seen by a microscope?

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No. to viewing a phenomenon you need to send light (photon) to it and then see reflected light( photon) as the atom particles (electron,neutron,proton) are in order of photon, your sent light changes their conditions and you see none

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Items can be imaged on an atomic scale using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope. It isn't exactly a "microscope" in the ordinary sense in that it doesn't directly generate an image; it instead generates data that is turned into an image by a computer.

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No, it is not possible to see a atom through a microscope.

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In short....No
Atoms are far to small to see with any kind of microscope.

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No. Atoms are far to small to be seen with a microscope. They are smaller than the wavelengths of visible light, so nothing that uses light can be used to see them.

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Yes, using an atomic force microscope.

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They can with a Surface Probe Microscope

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This an AFM (Atomic Force Microscope).

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scanning tunneling microscope

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