• Question: Have you ever seen microorganisms with a microscope ?Is it possible?

    Asked by Enrique Sanahuja to Sian on 8 Mar 2018.
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      Sian Richardson answered on 8 Mar 2018:


      Yes you can see micro-organisms under the microscope. You need an microscope with about x400 magnification to be able to visualise them. There are different times of microscopes light and electron, as electrons have a smaller wavelength than light you can get a better resolution with an electron microscope. A scanning electron microscope can magnify something up to ×100000

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