How to Use electron microscope in a Sentence

electron microscope

noun
  • Li placed the smidgen of ice into a cryo-electron microscope.
    — Carl Zimmer New York Times, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Two views of hardware from the world's largest electron microscope, which loomed over the event.
    — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Some were glued to brass disks with clear nail polish for scanning in an electron microscope.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Looking through an electron microscope, any cracks in an object should show up as bright white spots.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Under an electron microscope, the false pollen grains look like brand-new tennis balls.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
  • But some particles are so small they can only be seen using an electron microscope.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
  • Still, the team managed to use an electron microscope to image thousands of slices of the insect’s tiny brain.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, it can only be viewed using an electron microscope.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Under the electron microscope, the team found the presence of melanosomes, tiny packages that contain melanin.
    — New Atlas, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Morstang photographed some of these samples using an electron microscope.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The team then stained the tissue samples from the four patients and used an electron microscope to examine them.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • Back in the lab, Bednarsek looked at the crabs’ shells, known as its carapace, under an electron microscope.
    — oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2020
  • This was done so that cells would be visible when viewed through an electron microscope, as heavy metals reflect electrons.
    — Isabel Fraser, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
  • First, fake and real horn looked the same when examined under a scanning electron microscope.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • There’s also one that mimics what the arthropod looks like under a scanning electron microscope.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Under an electron microscope, the surface of a metalens looks like a plush carpet.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2022
  • These images were made with a scanning electron microscope, which uses beams of electrons to trace the surfaces of objects.
    — Rob Dunn, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The spikes, which can also be seen when the virus is looked at with an electron microscope, are what gives the virus its characteristic corona.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Oeggerli made images of herbs and spices with a scanning electron microscope, then enhanced the plants’ parts with color.
    — Rob Dunn, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • To do this, his group is creating ultrathin slices of plant cells and capturing an image of each slice with an electron microscope.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • Since then, the rabies virus, which looks like a bullet in images made with an electron microscope, has been exhaustively studied.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 July 2019
  • Researchers carved the tiniest gingerbread house ever made with a gallium ion beam and an electron microscope.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
  • In the darkroom, scans of electron microscope images of hair samples show one treated with hair care products (left) and untreated.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • The name of coronavirus comes from its shape, which resembles a crown or solar corona when imaged using an electron microscope.
    — Haitao Guo, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The award goes partly to a researcher who successfully used electron microscopes to image proteins.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2017
  • In the study, Middleton and the team examined the wax of a blueberry using an electron microscope.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The team even used a specialized electron microscope to examine the molecular structure of the feather.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Under an electron microscope, the spikes give the viral particle a crown-like appearance, hence corona viruses.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 May 2020
  • Hossain first became intrigued after eating a hazelnut and placing its shell under an electron microscope.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The research team examined the molar with a micro-CT scan and a scanning electron microscope.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 May 2026

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