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Microscope (From The: Ancient Greek Instrument Microscopy Microscopic

A microscope is an instrument used to see objects too small for the naked eye by using lenses to magnify samples. There are many types of microscopes including optical microscopes, which use light to image samples, and electron microscopes, which use electron beams. The most common microscope is the optical microscope, which was the first type to be invented and uses lenses and light to magnify very small objects otherwise invisible to the human eye.

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Microscope (From The: Ancient Greek Instrument Microscopy Microscopic

A microscope is an instrument used to see objects too small for the naked eye by using lenses to magnify samples. There are many types of microscopes including optical microscopes, which use light to image samples, and electron microscopes, which use electron beams. The most common microscope is the optical microscope, which was the first type to be invented and uses lenses and light to magnify very small objects otherwise invisible to the human eye.

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microscope (from the Ancient Greek: , mikrs, "small" and , skopen, "to look" or

"see") is an instrument used to see objects that are too small for the naked eye. The science of
investigating small objects using such an instrument is calledmicroscopy. Microscopic means
invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope.
There are many types of microscopes. The most common (and the first to be invented) is the optical
microscope, which uses light to image the sample. Other major types of microscopes are
the electron microscope (both the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron
microscope), the ultramicroscope, and the various types of scanning probe microscope.

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