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| TSEM | transmission scanning electron microscopy |
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| Rheinberg microscope | <instrument> A modified form of dark-field microscope in which the central opaque stop in the condenser is replaced by a coloured filter, producing a background of contrasting colour against which the specimen is illuminated. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Greenough microscope | <instrument, microscopy> One of two kinds of stereomicroscopes with two separate compound microscopes, one for each eye, focused on the same object. The other kind has a common main objective. See: binocular microscope. (05 Aug 1998) |
| phase-contrast microscope | <instrument> A specially constructed microscope that has a special condenser and objective containing a phase-shifting ring whereby small differences in index of refraction are made visible as intensity or contrast differences in the image; particularly useful for examining structural details in transparent specimens such as living or unstained cells and tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| microscope | <instrument> A piece of laboratory equipment that is used to magnify small things that are too small to be seen by the naked eye, or too small for the details to be seen by the naked eye, so that their finer details can be seen and studied. Examples are the light (or optical) microscope, electron microscope, X-ray microscope, and acoustic microscope. (09 Oct 1997) |
| microscope, compound | A microscope that consists of two microscopes in series, the first serving as the ocular lens (close to the eye) and the second serving as the objective lens (close to the object to be viewed). Credit for creating the compound microscope goes usually to the dutch spectaclemakers hans and zacharias janssen who in 1590 invented an instrument that could be used as either a microscope or telescope. The compound microscope evolved into the dominant type of optical microscope today. (12 Dec 1998) |
| microscope, field emission | <microscopy> An image-forming device in which a strong electrostatic field causes cold emission of electrons from a sharply rounded point or from a specimen that has been placed on that point. The electrons are accelerated to a phosphorescent screen, or photographic film, giving a visible picture of the variation of emission over the specimen surface. (05 Aug 1998) |
| microscope, fluorescent | A microscope equipped to examine material that fluoresces under ultraviolet (uv) light. (12 Dec 1998) |
| microscope, Greenough | <microscopy> A stereoscopic microscope with paired objectives, prisms, and eyepieces invented by H. Greenough. The name is sometimes incorrectly used for any stereoscopic microscope with paired objectives showing erect images. (05 Aug 1998) |
| microscope mirror | <microscopy> Usually plane on one side and concave on the other. The flat side is generally used unless the objective is of very low power and there is no condenser. The mirror should be so mounted that the concave side can be focused on the specimen. (05 Aug 1998) |
| microscope, simple | <microscopy> A microscope that has a single converging lens (or a combination of lenses that function optically as a single converging lens). Anton van leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) made good use of the simple microscope to look at the life within a drop of water, and such. The magnifying properties of lenses had been well known in ancient times (for example to the greeks and romans) but it was not until about 1600 that it became possible to make small lenses with the precision needed to make a microscope. (12 Dec 1998) |
| microscope, stereoscopic | <microscopy> Either one of two kinds: binocular-bi-nobjective, such as the Greenough microscope type, and binocular microscope with common main objective. See: stereomicroscope. (05 Aug 1998) |
| microscope, X-ray | <microscopy> A device for producing enlarged images of a specimen by means of X rays. Dioptric systems, analogous to light microscopes, are not available, but contact microradiography, point-projection, and reflection techniques (which see) provide practical alternatives. (05 Aug 1998) |
| monobjective binocular microscope | <instrument, microscopy> A microscope with one objective and two bodies, for binocular vision, not necessarily stereoscopic. (05 Aug 1998) |
| monocular microscope | <instrument, microscopy> A microscope with one objective and one bodytube for monocular vision. (05 Aug 1998) |
| colour-contrast microscope | <instrument> A type of microscope in which the condenser stop is of one colour and the annulus is a complement of it so that unstained objects are observed in one colour on a field of the other. (05 Mar 2000) |