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What does electron microscope mean?

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Noun
  1. Any of several forms of microscope that use a beam of electrons, rather than one of light, and thus has a much greater resolving power.
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Designed much like a compound microscope, the electron microscope uses a beam of electrons focused through magnetic lenses.
A specimen obtained from scrapings of the woman's hand was prepared and examined with the use of a scanning electron microscope.
The cross sections of the samples are analyzed, and the pigments are identified under a polarizing or scanning electron microscope.
With the inventions of the electron microscope and the field ion microscope, scientists have been able to observe the microcosm as never before.
Here's an electron microscope image of a herpes virus and here's the cowpox virus.
The carbon-platinum replicas were transferred from a finishing water bath onto copper electron microscope grids.

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