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Canada Welcomes World's Largest Electron Microscope
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by Terri Potratz | October 21, 2008 at 03:42 pm
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The world's newest and most powerful electron microscope was recently unveiled in Hamilton, Ontario. Built in the Netherlands, The Titan 80-300 Cubed has been installed in the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University.
Centre director Gianluigi Botton called the resolution of the $15-million microscope remarkable, saying it would be the equivalent of the Hubble Telescope looking at the atomic level instead of at stars and galaxies.
He said with this microscope, scientists can now easily identify atoms, measure their chemical state and even probe the electrons that bind them together.
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at 18:35 on October 22nd, 2008
This is an electron microscope used in the Materials Science Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (US).
robbk has contributed a photo to this story.
at 23:40 on October 22nd, 2008
This is a Philips / FEI Tecnai 12 Transmission Electron Microscope used for research into structural biology.
tz1_1zt has contributed a photo to this story.
at 00:55 on October 23rd, 2008
Terri Potratz, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 23:45 on October 24th, 2008
An ancient workhorse of the electron microscopes.
Hitachi S-510, 20+ years old. Located at Bellevue Community College in Washington State.
Mainly used to suck up electricity and to show to students that have an interest.
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