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We have electron microscopes that can see individual atoms.† (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007

Looking at Ebola under an electron microscope is like looking at a gorgeously wrought ice castle.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

He then removed a core sample measuring one centimeter in diameter and two centimeters in length from just below the right knee and analyzed it using an electron microscope, electron microprobe, mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, and X-ray fluorescence.† (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

In the other direction, Jotunheim spread out like an electron microscope landscape—impossibly jagged peaks, crystalline cliffs, ravines filled with ovoid clouds like floating bacteria.† (source) Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer, 2015

Television was cheaper and more easily set up; TV image-intensifiers were already in use for electron microscopes, X-ray machines, and other devices.† (source)

A Field Emission Electron Microscope, a Siemens, stood along one wall.† (source)

Due to the size of wavelengths, the best electron microscopes can magnify about a thousand times more than the best light microscope.

Finally, the button was set into the electron microscope, and the microscope sealed shut.† (source)

The laboratory with its electron microscope and the other instruments to her right.† (source)

That was how thick they wanted a slice of tissue to be for the electron microscope.† (source)

He walked toward the electron microscope, snapped it on, and slipped the slide into place.† (source)

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Limited as it was, the electron microscope was their only available high-power tool.† (source)

In the same way, an electron microscope will 'hold the road' better than a light microscope.† (source)

He had not used an electron microscope for nearly a year.† (source)

An electron microscope could outline small structures within the cell.† (source)

The electron microscope used by Wildfire was the BVJ model JJ-42.† (source)

Geisbert tried to look at many samples of virus as a way of sharpening his skills with an electron microscope.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

He wanted to look at the cells in his electron microscope to try to find some visual evidence that they were infected with simian fever.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

The Institute hired him to operate its electron microscope, which uses a beam of electrons to make images of small objects, such as viruses.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

As light glimmered around the Institute, Tom sliced pieces of monkey liver with his diamond knife and put them into the electron microscope.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

This was his electron microscope.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

By put it in the beam, he meant "look at it using the electron microscope," which is much more powerful than a light microscope, and can see deeper into the universe within.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

Frederick A. Murphy was one of the original discoverers of Ebola virus, the wizard with an electron microscope who had first photographed the virus and whose work had hung in art museums.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

"" In actual practice there were several drawbacks to the electron microscope, which counterbalanced its great powers of magnification.† (source)

On October 13—the same day Nurse Mayinga was sitting in the waiting rooms of hospitals in Kinshasa—he placed a droplet of fluid from the cells on a small screen and let it dry, and he put it in his electron microscope to see what he could see.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

The electron microscope could provide great magnification and clear detail—but only if you knew where to look.† (source)

The great advantage of the electron microscope was that it could magnify objects far more than the light microscope.† (source)

It was not, in this sense, a microscope, and it operated differently from either the light or electron microscope.† (source)

The electron microscope was a valuable tool, but occasionally it made things more difficult, not easier.† (source)

But an electron microscope can follow all the minor routes, the byroads, and can outline very small structures within the cell—mitochondria, ribosomes, membranes, reticula.† (source)

In principle, the electron microscope was simple enough: it worked exactly like a light microscope, but instead of focusing light rays, it focused an electron beam.† (source)

To obtain higher magnification, they would have to go to a separate room, or else use the electron microscopes.† (source)

He removed the internal organs from the rat and monkey and examined each, removing samples for both the light and electron microscopes.† (source)

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