Word: photomicrograph
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...vegetable, are transparent to ordinary light. To make them visible they must be stained, and the stain either kills them or sickens them. They can be seen with special ultraviolet microscopes, but strong ultraviolet is also deadly to cells; only the picture of a tiny corpse appears in the photomicrograph...
Interested in the possible value of the element for cancer therapy. Chemist von Grosse took a photomicrograph of his precious mite by the light of its own rays. The pictures showed something like a glowing shoe-button. Then he turned the stuff over to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry to be placed on exhibition. The museum furnished visitors with a magnifying glass by which to inspect the speck, too small to be seen with the naked...
...film, called a photomicrograph, since it was taken through a microscope, portrays in greatly magnified form the complete life cycle of the Fucus Vesiculosus, that brown plant with the air filled bladders so often seen growing at the tide levels of rocky sea shores. Panoramic views of the habitat of the plant are shown first, followed by close up views of the plant as seen in everyday life. After these shots cross sections of various parts of the plant are shown revealing the organisms necessary for maintenance of life and the continuance of the plant...
Among the more recent accessions to the laboratory in Harvard hall are the dissecting microscopes for use in Natural History 3. They are provided with Zeiss lenses, maguifying from eight to thirty times, and are ample for all analysis of flowers. From Zeiss the department has received a complete photomicrograph outfit, for use in Natural History...
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