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Ultramicroscope

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Noun

1. dark-field microscope, ultramicroscope

light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ultramicroscope

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noun
a microscope used for studying colloids, in which the sample is strongly illuminated from the side and colloidal particles are seen as bright points on a dark background
. Also called: dark-field microscope

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Ultramicroscope

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noun
an instrument equipped to pick up the reflections of light rays dispersed by ultramicroscopic objects lighted from the side and against a dark background, thus making them visible: used esp. in the study of colloidal particles

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ultramicroscope

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n.
A microscope with high-intensity illumination used to study very minute objects, such as colloidal particles that scatter the light and appear as bright spots against a dark background.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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