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Pass1 What are Light Microscopes? What does the word microscope mean: The first part of the word "Micro" means tiny. The "scope" part means to look at or view. Microscopes are tools that are used too enlarge images of small objects so that they can be studied. A light microscope is an instrument made up of two lens they are eyepiece lens and the object lens combined they produce a much greater magnification that what is possible with just one single lens. The microscope also has a variety of knobs to focus the picture seen thought the microscope. The light microscope is also known as the compound microscope this is because it uses more than one lens. The light microscope uses visible light to detect small objects; the microscope consists of an optical instrument that magnifies the image of an object. It is probably the most used research tool in biology. The total...

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