Ultramicroscope

Definition: Ultramicroscope

Ultramicroscope

Noun

1. Light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes.

Specialty Definition: Ultramicroscope

Domain	Definition
Mining	A microscope in which a strong beam of light (Tyndall beam) is viewed at right angles. Individual soluble particles too small to be seen under a normal microscope then appear as bright spots against a dark background.Ultramicroscopy operates below 0.25 mu m. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Ultramicroscope

The ultramicroscope is not an instrument for magnifying images, as in a microscope or other such device. Instead, it is a system of illumination for extremely small objects such as colloidal particles, fog droplets, or smoke particles. The objects are held in liquid or gaseous suspension in an enclosure with an intensely black background (usually a black body) and illuminated with a convergent pencil of very bright light entering from one side and coming to focus in the field of view - the "Tyndall cone" familiar in experiements on scattering. With this arrangement, objects too small to form visible images in the microscope produce small diffraction ring patterns that appear as bright specks on a dark field. Ultramicroscopes are used in the study of Brownian motion, in the Millikan droplet experiment for measuring the electric charge of the electron, and in observing ionization tracks in cloud chambers.

Modern Translation: Ultramicroscope

Language		Translations for "ultramicroscope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		超显微镜. (various references)

Pig Latin		amicroscopeultray

Vietnamese		kính siêu hiển vi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Ultramicroscope

Anagrams: Ultramicroscope

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Ultramicroscope

Definition: Ultramicroscope