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  • Ms. Ramsey also faulted that microscope's construction, noting that the clips to hold the slides in place were particularly hard to use.

    Ooh! Paramecium! 2007

  • Moreover, Ms. Ramsey found it took considerable effort to focus on an object because the microscope's minimum magnification -- 80x -- was too high.

    Ooh! Paramecium! 2007

  • That is because a conventional microscope's glass lens would have suffered from the hydrofluoric acid used to separate the particles from other elements.

    Boing Boing: December 26, 2004 - January 1, 2005 Archives 2004

  • Zimmerman looked up from the scanning probe microscope's image-intensifier screen at his unexpected visitor.

    Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997

  • Cardenas peered at the microscope's display screen briefly, made a small adjustment on a roller dial, then turned smiling to Doug.

    Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997

  • Lady Helen leaned across the worktable and clicked off the microscope's light.

    A Suitable Vengeance George, Elizabeth 1991

  • The light microscope's ability to be an extension of the human eye had stunned scientists since the end of the 16th century.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 - Perspectives 1986

  • Then he cleaned up and put the pictures back and left one small light on, the microscope's stage illuminator, and lay down and turned the radio on low, an all-night classical music program.

    1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984

  • It begins with father and daughter examining that drop of water which expands under the microscope into the sea on which The Two Darlings sails and then contracts, towards the end of the story, under a "disastrous bright light" (associated with the microscope's reflector) into the dried-up sea on which she is stranded.

    Fruits of the MLA Alexander, George B. 1968

  • He filled the time consumed by the staining process with the ritual of aiming the microscope's substage mirror out the window at a brilliant white cloud.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

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