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How to Make a Snowflake Microscope

i could talk to you all day about some of the ones we didn't get to, and maybe at some point. But here's a passion project that am this is a three d printed prototype of something that i will make on a five axis milling machine. O, and it requires a bunch as little explanations. So this is for my next snowflake microscope. And ordinary microscope has a bunch of laws. One of those laws is, for a given microscope objective, there's a a parometer called the numerical aperture, n a, and that determines resolution. Well, a guy at th university of connecticut figured out this insanely clever scheme that uses a bunch of lds, which

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