optical microscope
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optical microscopes
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With a pipette, she places a single drop of this liquid on a gold-coated glass plate positioned under an optical microscope.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
And unlike the quartz discs, which stored data digitally, the nickel sheets can be read using a standard optical microscope, magnified up to 1,000 times.
From The Verge ● May 15, 2018
Once back in London, he and Dodd peered at very thin slices of the rocks, first with an optical microscope, then with a laser-based device called a Raman microscope.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2017
The tracks are large and can be visually counted under an optical microscope.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The molecules are huge; they can be seen with an ordinary optical microscope, and a microscopically visible molecule is a curious-looking object, to say the least.
From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper
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