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An optical microscope uses light and one or more lenses to view cells. An optical microscope with two or more lenses is called a compound optical microscope.
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What general type of microscope used bright illumination and multiple glass lenses?
A compound light microscope.
List two uses for concave lens?
Both concave and convex lenses are used in glasses; A microscope, like a reflecting telescope, uses a concave mirror, a plane mirror, and a convex lens; A refracting telescope uses two convex lenses to magnify images in the sky; binoculars use concave lenses to improve detail.
Which instrument was used in the 18th and the 19th centuries and helped scientists develop the cell theory?
light microscope
What science instrument would be used to measure very small cell organisms?
There is no instrument in world which measure how small an object is but instruments measure how large an object is .
What are 5 uses of a concave lens?
The convex lenses can be used in magnifying glasses. They are thicker in the center than in the edges. They are also used in the glasses of those affected with farsightedness. The shape of the lenses used for our eyes is also convex so as to allow it to fit snugly into the eye in shape.
What instrument that uses light and two or more lenses is used to view cells?
A microscope.
What instrument was used to discover the cell?
A simple version of a compound microscope was used to discover cells. Robert Hooke first described cells in 1665, using a compound microscope. Soon after, Anton van Leeuwenhoek also studied cells using a microscope with more advanced lenses.
Uses lenses to magnify a specimen what can be used to view living cells is called?
A light microscope uses lens to see living cells.
What instrument used to study cells?
The instrument that is used to study cells is a microscope.
What is the instrument used in studying cells?
The instrument that is used to study cells is a microscope.
What is a tube shaped instrument with lenses used to observed objects in space called?
A telescope
What is a instrument used to see cells?
Microscope
What did they use to look at cells?
they used hand held lenses and later microscope.
What type of instrument is used to look at cells?
microscope
What instrument is used to see visibly?
There are several instruments that are used to enhance visibility. Examples are; Spectacles and contact lenses Telescopes Microscopes
What are the use of concave?
Concave lenses are used todiverge rays of light.
Why is a concave mirror used in microscopes instead of convex lenses?
To focus AND reflect light through the specimen slide to the lenses.
