Microscope Word Search
This microscope word search names the parts of the instrument and the work done with it: the eyepiece and the objective lenses on the turning nosepiece, the stage and its clips, the coarse focus and fine focus knobs, the condenser, and the slide under its coverslip.
A compound microscope multiplies two lenses. The eyepiece usually magnifies ten times, so a 40x objective gives a total magnification of 400. The strongest objective, 100x, works only with a drop of immersion oil between the lens and the slide, because oil bends light almost exactly as glass does and keeps it from scattering. Light itself sets a limit on resolution: two points closer than about two ten-thousandths of a millimeter blur into one, however good the lenses are.
The first compound microscopes are usually credited to Dutch spectacle makers around 1590, often to Zacharias Janssen and his father. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek did better with a single tiny lens. Studying pond water and the scrapings from his own teeth, he saw what he called animalcules, the first bacteria and protists anyone had seen. The electron microscope came in 1931, when Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll used a beam of electrons instead of light, and Ruska won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1986.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
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- Animalcules
- Aperture
- Arm
- Base
- Body Tube
- Clips
- Coarse Focus
- Compound
- Condenser
- Cork
- Coverslip
- Diaphragm
- Digital
- Dissecting
- Electron
- Eyepiece
- Fine Focus
- High Power
- Hooke
- Illuminator
- Immersion Oil
- Janssen
- Leeuwenhoek
- Lens
- Magnification
- Micron
- Mirror
- Nosepiece
- Objective
- Ocular
- Onion
- Parfocal
- Resolution
- Ruska
- Scanning
- Slide
- Specimen
- Stage
- Stain
- Wet Mount