What Does Matter Look Like Under A Microscope

It is thanks to them that we can see what chalk a cat s and human s tongue teeth and other ordinary things look like.

What does matter look like under a microscope.

When you see a cat s tongue under the microscope you will understand why it feels like sandpaper when they lick you. Under a high power microscope like the scanning transmission electron microscope it is possible even to stain and observe the detailed structure of the cellular organelles. Their tongue looks like hundreds of little tongues in one. Thanks to science we can look at things in a whole new way and even the most ordinary objects can amaze you if you put them under a microscope.

For the gaseous state p 1 atm and t 0 c. Under a light microscope you will see nothing special maybe some discoloration due to scattering. It is this extreme contrast with the gaseous states that leads to the appellation condensed states of matter for liquids and solids. The excluded volume is the volume actually taken up by the neon atoms according to the van der waals equation of state model.

If you use transmission light than you will see different color and later thickness fringes all this below 50 um. Well whatever it looks like doesn t matter as long as it does its job to protect our eyes from dirt and other pollutants in the air. People s curiosity knows no boundaries because we always want to know every tiny detail. Microscopes that are able to enlarge the image of an object by thousands or millions of times are there to help us.

Table pageindex 1 compares the molar volumes of neon in its three states.