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Microscopy
Microscopy is a technique for making very small things visible to the unaided eye. An instrument used to make the small things visible to the naked (unaided) eye is called a microscope. There are two fundamentally different types of microscopes based on the source of illumination: the light microscope and the electron microscope.
6.1 Light microscope
Light or optical microscope uses visible light as a source of illumination. Because the light travels through the specimen, this instrument can also be called a transmission light microscope.
The simplest form of light microscope consists of a single lens, a magnifying glass. Microscope made up of more than one glass lens in combination is termed compound microscope. Compound microscope ...
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