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    Muslim scholar Ibn al-Haytham writes hisBook of Optics. It eventually transforms how light and vision are understood. • 1284 AD • First eye glasses • Salvino D’Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eye glasses. • 1590 AD • Early microscope • Zacharias Janssen and his father Hans place multiple lenses in a tube. They observe that viewed objects in front of

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    Light Microscope, Transmission Electron Microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope work; Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each type of microscope. The three different types of microscope all work very differently. They all have limitations as to what can and cannot be seen through them and two key factors as to why this is are magnification and resolution. Magnification determines how closely we can look at the object, whereas resolution presents the limits of the microscope as to what

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    particle size and distribution. Due to this GSR samples are collected with adhesive lifters, the adhesive contains carbon, which colors it black and makes it able to conduct electrons in the SEM. Analysts also can use clear adhesive lifters; however, these require an extra step of carbon coating to prevent charging from the electron beam hitting the sample during analysis.(the current status of

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    The study conducted by Weisle, Nagaswami, and Peterson is displayed about river otters and how they are different in structure from other marine mammals. River otters must depend on their thick layer of hair for survival. River otters are semi-aquatic mammals, which are considered to have denser fur than any other mammals. It’s thick, sleek coat, which keeps it dry and warm, is made up of two types of hair. The longer outer hairs are water repellent as known as guard hairs, and the other is underhair

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    For these reasons, it is not used study living organism. As a disadvantage, some structures called artifact, can be seen but they are not present in natural specimens. 3. Scanning Electron Microscope-(SEM) it is a type of electron microscope that also uses a magnetic fields within a vacuum tube to manipulate a beam of electrons. The surface of the specimen need to be coated with a metal such as platinum or gold. It is used to observe the surface details of microbes and cellular structures, and

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    2.2.2.2 Elastic fibres Elastic fibres are 1 µm to 3µm in diameter and are loosely arranged in all directions in the dermis [90]. These fibres are scattered among the collagen bundles and become thicker in the deeper layers of the dermis [90]. Elastic fibres, as their name indicates, are extremely elastic and help in the elastic recoil of the skin and that is the reason why they are more abundant in the dermis of the face, scalp and the extensible organs, such as tendons and arteries [91, 92]. 2

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    house. The earliest use of bullet examination can be found in 1902 when Oliver Wendell Holmes fired a bullet into cotton and compared to the bullet recovered from the crime scene with a magnifying glass. This way was studied and perfected using a microscope to compare bullet striations in 1912. In 1925

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