Parts of the microscope

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If the microscope needs to be picked up these are the parts you hold.

It holds the slide and stage in place.

The lens we look into. It is a lens that allows magnification. The eyepiece and objective lenses operate together to magnify objects up to 400 times their original size.

This focuses the light coming up from the light source onto the specimen.

This is a knob used to bring a specimen into focus. This focus moves a greater distance per turn. Be cautious not to smash the specimen or crush the glass slide when using the coarse focus.

One should use this lens to magnify the specimen as much as possible. It is easy to become focused on viewing the specimen. When using this power objective be sure to use the fine focus as it is very easy to smash the specimen or crush the glass slid

If the microscope needs to be picked up these are the parts you hold.

Place your specimen on a slide and put it on the stage. The stage is where we place the items we want to view with the microscope.