alleryStart learning →When oil immersion lenses are used to study small objects, magnification is usually increased to what value?
A1,000 times
B100 times
C10,000 times
D100,000 times
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. 1,000 times
1. A standard undergraduate light microscope reaches about 400 times.
2. Fitting oil immersion lenses raises this ceiling for the study of small objects.
3. With oil immersion, magnification is usually increased to 1,000 times.
4. Values of 10,000 and above belong to electron microscopy, not to any light microscope.
_Source: OpenStax Biology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 4 "Cell Structure", section 4.1 Studying Cells_
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