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Electron microscopes use a particle beam of electrons to illuminate the specimen and produce a magnified image with better than 50 pm resolution and magnifications of up to about 10,000,000 times.

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What kind of microscope do you need to see particles?

To see particles, such as individual cells or microorganisms, you would typically need a light microscope. However, to see smaller particles like viruses or nanoparticles, you would need an electron microscope.


What can be seen under a electron microscope but not a light microscope?

You can see a hair fiber well using an optical microscope, but you can hardly see a dimension 100 times smaller (about 10 microns). An electron microscope can review features as small as 10 nm, about 1/100000 th of a fiber.


In relation to a microscopewhat is magnification and resolution?

Magnification is the amount by which the image you see will be larger than the actual object, ie. if the image you see appears to be twice as large as the original object then it will be a 2x magnification. (magnification = size of image / size of object) Resolution is the smallest possible visible thing on the enlarged image. On a satellite picture the resolution may be 1m2 meaning that anything smaller is not visible on that picture. In the case of an electron microscope, for example, anything smaller than 1 electron will not be visible using the electron microscope.


How many micrometers can an electron microscope see?

An electron microscope can typically resolve details down to about 1 nanometer, which is equivalent to 1000 micrometers. This high resolution allows electron microscopes to see very small structures and features at the nanoscale level.


How much more powerful is electron microscope than the light microscope?

An electron microscope is significantly more powerful than a light microscope as it uses a beam of electrons instead of light to view specimens. This allows for much higher magnification and resolution, making it possible to see smaller details in the sample. Electron microscopes have a resolution that is up to 1000 times higher than that of light microscopes.

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What is the smallest thing you can see using a microscope?

Bacteria is the smallest thing that can be seen using a microscope.


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What does an electron microscope allow scientists to do that they couldn't do with a light microscope?

Things To See Closer And Deeper Into The Thing They Are Looking At.


What is the smallest thing that you know of?

a little germ or something. something u need to see with a microscope.


Which tool allows scientist to see atoms on the surface of a metal?

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What does an electroscope do?

I'm guessing you mean the electron microscope. The EM does the same thing an ordinary visible light microscope does which is allows the viewer to see very tiny things. But the EM allows the viewer to see things that are way smaller than the smallest objects the ordinary microscope can see. The electron microscope allows us to see those way smaller objects because the electro-magnetic waves that the electron microscope uses to illuminate the target object we want to view are orders of magnitude shorter than visible light waves. And a rule of physics is that whatever object we want to see can only be seen when the illuminating waves are shorter than the object's size.


How is it possible to study cells if they are to small to see with the naked eye?

there's a thing called a microscope.its not impossible.they can use a electron microscope or a scanning tunnaling microscope.


Why is specimen smaller than200mm not visible with a light microscope?

Because the smallest wavelength of visible light we can see is around 400 nm. Something 200 nm would need an electron microscope to be seen.


What microscope is best to see moving amoeba?

A Transmission Electron Microscope


What microscope lets you see individual atoms?

electron tunneling microscope


What is the differences between a compound and electron microscope?

The compound microscope is a light microscope that uses light to "see" microbes. Viruses are too small.The electron microscope uses electrons to "see" microbes or viruses.


What things are looked at through electron microscopes?

Really small things. Because there are limits to how small an object we can observe through a light microscope, we developed the electron microscope. By setting up a sample and streaming electrons at it to resolve an image, we can "see" things smaller than we'd be able to see through a light microscope.