Sentence examples for microscope to look from inspiring English sources

Wilkins took close-up photographs and put the stones under a microscope to look for the tell-tale damage caused to stones whenever they are used on spears.

Comparing the DNA of different but related species can work as a kind of microscope to look at events as the species separated — events that are otherwise lost in deep time.

Among the best are many small, clumsy-looking stoneware sculptures of imaginary devices, including a machine to make illegal aliens legal, a phone to talk to the sea, a microscope to look at oneself and even a computer to slow oneself down.

For many years Iannis Xenakis, from Greece, created his sound "sculptures" using probability theory.Other composers, such as Jonathan Harvey from Britain or Kaija Saariaho from Finland, have used the computer as a microscope to look inside sound and to use the seething activity hidden from normal hearing.

Biomechanics expert Andrew Martin and colleagues at the Institute for Technical Zoology and Bionics in Bremen, Germany, used a scanning electron microscope to look at the feet of a small jumping spider (Evarcha arcuata).

A laboratory technician uses a microscope to look at a sample of cervical cells for signs of abnormal cell changes that may be caused by HPV.

"A lot of it is microscopy; using microscopes to look at what happens in the process.

Apparently they were about to make miniature microscopes to look at mold someone had been growing at home.

There are three cameras, including one that is part of a microscope intended to look at freshly ground rock surfaces (there is a rock-grinder, too).

But there's better news in the ultraviolet photomicroscope lab, where a microscope Bell commissioned to look at metals is now being used to peer at chromosomes.

The sample tubes were investigated by microscope in order to look for any deterioration in the alumina film that covers the 384 tubes.