Why is the light microscope called a compound microscope?
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Compound microscopes are light illuminated
COMPOUND MICROSCOPE is also called light microscope because image is transmit to your eye with help OF LIGHT
by light term light refers to the method by which light transmits the image to your eye.
simple microscope had only one lens
Compound deals with the microscope having more than one lens.
IN ELECTRON microscope there is no use of glass lenses but glass and plastic lenses are used in only compound and light microcope
there is use of lens and use of Visible Light in both Compound and LIGHt microscope .... thats why compound microscope is also known as light microscope ..
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Because it depends on more than one lens, the ocular which is near to the eye and the objective which is above the specimen. Usually there is more than one size of each giving different magnifying abilities.