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    • Scientist working on a transmission electron microscope.
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    Dr Richard Tilley using the transmission electron microscope1 of the MacDiarmid Institute. The sample is placed in the base of the grey column in front of Richard, and the image is viewed on the computer screen on the right.

    1. electron microscope: A microscope that uses a focused beam of electrons, rather than visible light, to magnify objects. Electron microscopes use electromagnetic coils to focus the electron beam (instead of the glass lenses used to focus light in optical microscopes). Traditional light microscopes magnify images 1000-2000 times, electron microscopes can magnify 300,000 times or more.

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      2. A microscope that uses a focused beam of electrons, rather than visible light, to magnify objects. Electron microscopes use electromagnetic coils to focus the electron beam (instead of the glass lenses used to focus light in optical microscopes). Traditional light microscopes magnify images 1000-2000 times, electron microscopes can magnify 300,000 times or more.

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