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Using a Compound Light Microscope  Parts of The Microscope Parts of The Microscope  Making a Wet Mount Making a Wet Mount  Magnification Magnification

Parts of a Microscope

Ocular (eyepiece) The ocular or eyepiece is that part that you look through when using the microscope. The magnification of most common light microscope oculars is 10X.

Objective The Objective lens is made of precision optics that will gather the light from the specimen and transmit it to the Ocular Lens. This particular model has a continuous zoom objective lens ranging from 10X to 100X.

Magnification Magnification is the product of the magnifications of each lens element in the scope. In this case the maximum magnification is 10X x 100X or 1000X, meaning specimens will appear 1000X larger when viewed at maximum magnification.

Preparing a Wet Mount Click the blue square to start the movie