ULTRAMICROSCOPE Definition & Meaning

ultramicroscope

[uhl-truh-mahy-kruh-skohp]

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noun

an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.

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noun

Also called: dark-field microscope.��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

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

ultramicroscopic adjective
ultramicroscopical adjective

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of ultramicroscope¹

First recorded in 1905–10; ultra- + microscope

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The problem, Mr. Moskowitz says, is one that many companies would envy: “It’s so big that its success has put them under an ultramicroscope.”

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Visibility under the "Ultramicroscope."—The particles of a sol, in contrast with the molecules of a true solution, are visible as bright scintillating points under the ultramicroscope.

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It is probably too small to be seen by any of our present microscopes, even the recently invented ultramicroscope.

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Our best ultramicroscopes could make a germ look forty thousand times larger.

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What I saw through that ultramicroscope was not an unproven theory, but a fact.

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ultramicrometer ultramicroscopic

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