MicroScopes

Scientist applying Cargille immersion oil to a microscope slide.
Microscopes

Slippery Question: What Is Cargille Immersion Oil?

When you’re working with microscopes, you’ll come across all kinds of different items and materials that you’ve never heard of before. One such material is Cargille immersion oil, which is a substance that is essential to the operation of various kinds of microscopes. It allows users to magnify objects without sacrificing image quality, making it

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Nanostructure of material sample viewed through an acoustic microscope.
Microscopes

Do You Know What an Acoustic Microscope Is? Listen Up!

In the world of science, one can use many different kinds of microscopes, including the acoustic microscope. When you hear the word acoustic, your brain might jump to instruments like acoustic guitars. While these microscopes have nothing to do with acoustic musical instruments, they use the same acoustics to capture the images you’re looking for. 

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Microscopes

Properly Setting Up Koehler Alignment in a Microscope

Understanding Koehler Alignment Before we understand Koehler alignment – the main topic of this article – let’s go into a bit of the history behind its conception.  Koehler alignment was invented by August Koehler, a 19th-20th-century German scientist. His publication, “A New System of Illumination for Photomicrographic Purposes,” was a revolutionary foray into solving problems that plagued

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Person pushing shopping cart containing a monocular microscope.
Microscopes

How to Buy a Microscope: The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide

Understanding Microscopes There are a plethora of different microscopes types out there: simple and compound microscopes, stereo microscopes, digital microscopes, fluorescence microscopes, confocal microscopes, and scanning probe microscopes. Check out this informative article for descriptions, anatomies, functions, and applications. In this article, we will look at microscopes from another lens (get it?): the definitive guide

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