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Noun: dark-field microscope
  1. Light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes
    "The researcher used a dark-field microscope to study colloidal suspensions";
    - ultramicroscope

Derived forms: dark-field microscopes

Type of: light microscope

Encyclopedia: Dark-field microscope