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The amount of heat a magnifying glass can concentrate is dependent on the amount of light the magnifying glass can concentrate. I will use some math here and at the same time neglect the reflectance of the lens.
So start by finding the area of the service of the glass in terms of square meters. For instance a lens with a 4" diameter would have an area of roughly 8.107E-3 square meters. Now take the area of the dot made by the focused light. Find the area of that light, maybe by quickly burning a spot on something wood. The ratio of the areas of those circles will be the same ratio of the concentration of the light. If the size of the burned dot is 2mm in diameter it will have an area of 3.142E-6 square meters. The lens is about 2500 times as large as the dot so ideally the the power would be increased by the same factor.
Nothing is ideal so there's substantially less energy focused.
At this distance the Sun delivers 1000 watts per square meter so a lens of that area would only have 8 watts incident upon it if it were perpendicular to the rays of light. Those 8 watts would then be concentrated on such a small area the temperature would increase rapidly.
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Is glass a good material to use for a magnifying glass?
You would think so, but that would depend on what kind of glass you are using.
What type of lens does the magnifying glass use?
Convex lense
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What kind of energy do your bones use to move?
I think the kind of energy you are looking for is mechanical energy.
Is glass a good material to use for a magnifying glass?
You would think so, but that would depend on what kind of glass you are using.
Does a magnifying glass use magnetism?
No
What can you use to investigate?
A magnifying glass.
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Magnifying glass is used with this lens
Why magnifying glass is useful but not essential?
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How can you tell if something is so magnified?
in a magnifying glass the glass is special type of glass. glasses lense are made of lint glass. magnifying glass is made of a thick glass. telescopes and magnifying glasses both use thicker glass than the usual. hope i helped you.
How do you use a magnifying glass to make toast?
put the magifying glass over sun
What was the initial use of the magnifying glass?
To enlarge something that your looking at.
What type of lens does the magnifying glass use?
Convex lense
What principle of light a magnifying glass make use of?
The refraction.
How does a plant burn when a magnifying glass and the sun join?
If you mean to ask how a magnifying glass can use sunlight to burn a plant, then here's how.A magnifying glass focuses the light going through it so that it all converges into a single point (focal point). The light that would have otherwise been spread out over the area of the magnifying glass is "concentrated". Therefore there is much more energy hitting that one point than otherwise would be. The light raises the temperature of the plant to the point where it will burn.
What is the use of magnifying glass in the laboratory?
A magnifying glass is most often used to enhance things that are usually invisible to the naked eye. It produces a bigger image of an object.
