Letter S

Scanning electron microscope

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Abbreviated SEM.

A microscope in which a finely focused beam of electrons is scanned across a specimen, and the electron intensity variations are used to construct an image of the specimen.

This type of microscope can effectively achieve magnifications from 200 to 35,000 times

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