electron microscope

Other forms: electron microscopes

Definitions of electron microscope
  1. noun
    a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light
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    types:
    field-emission microscope
    electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid
    type of:
    microscope
    magnifier of the image of small objects
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