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Light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes
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ultramicroscope
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An ultramicroscope is a microscope with a system of illumination that allows viewing of tiny particles. When the diameter of a particle is below or near the wavelength of visible light (around 500 nanometers ), the particle cannot be seen in a light microscope ...
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n. a microscope that uses bright illumination against a black background to view small particles
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes [syn: dark-field microscope ]
Usage examples of ultramicroscope.
What I saw through that ultramicroscope was not an unproven theory, but a fact.
With our powerful microscopes and ultramicroscopes, enlarging diameters twenty thousand times, we catch but the slightest glimpses of that profundity of infinitesimal life.
We had what we called microscopes and ultramicroscopes, and we put them to our eyes and looked through them, so that we saw things larger than they really were, and many things we could not see without the microscopes at all.
Our best ultramicroscopes could make a germ look forty thousand times larger.