Microscope

//ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp//

"Microscope" in a Sentence (14 examples)

This microscope magnifies objects by 100 times.

"Do you mind my borrowing your microscope?" "No, not at all."

Do you know the difference between a microscope and a telescope?

Germs can only be seen with the aid of a microscope.

Do you know who invented the microscope?

He looked at the slide under the microscope.

He was looking through a microscope.

This microscope has a 100X magnification.

Set the focus of the microscope.

Adjust the focus of the microscope.

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That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.

Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.

It has a strong germicidal action, as can be verified by staining and microscoping the pus, the characteristic micro-organisms disappearing rapidly under its use.

Wright (1959), using the standard and less laborious technique of microscoping the centrifuged deposit of a sample of urine, found that 21.6% of males attending life insurance examinations had more than 10 red blood cells per high power field (rbc/hpf).

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