oxyhydrogen microscope
oxyhydrogen microscope noun: a 19th‑century projection microscope that used an intensely bright oxyhydrogen flame to throw greatly magnified images of microscopic specimens onto a screen for audiences.
Noun
oxyhydrogen microscope (plural oxyhydrogen microscopes)
- A 19th‑century projection microscope that used an intensely bright oxyhydrogen flame to throw greatly magnified images of microscopic specimens onto a screen for audiences.
- Some declared it was a yard long; others were frightened, and instantly dropped it, and all were as much astonished, and made as much shouting and gesticulation, as children at a pantomime, or at a Christmas exhibition of the oxyhydrogen microscope. And all this excitement was produced by a little...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 64
Forms of oxyhydrogen microscope
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Questions about oxyhydrogen microscope
- What does oxyhydrogen microscope mean?
- Oxyhydrogen microscope means a 19th‑century projection microscope that used an intensely bright oxyhydrogen flame to throw greatly magnified images of microscopic specimens onto a screen for audiences.
- What part of speech is oxyhydrogen microscope?
- Oxyhydrogen microscope is a noun.
- What is the plural of oxyhydrogen microscope?
- The plural of oxyhydrogen microscope is oxyhydrogen microscopes.
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