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polarizing microscope

[′pō·lə‚rīz·iŋ ′mī·krə‚skōp]
(optics)
A microscope in which an object is viewed in polarized light.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The optical design of the LC-PolScope builds on the traditional polarizing microscope, introducing two essential modifications: the specimen is illuminated with nearly circularly polarized light, and a universal compensator replaces the traditional compensator (Fig.
I did so by buying a good text by Bloss (1967) and studying the theory and practice of using a polarizing microscope from cover to cover.
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We explored the polarized organization in maturing oocytes of Chaetopterus pergamentaceous using a centrifuge polarizing microscope (CPM).
One of us (RO) has improved upon conventional design by developing a new type of polarizing microscope (pol-scope), which can measure the retardance due to specimen anisotropy irrespective of orientation.
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