Veterinary Laboratory Techniques
Veterinary Laboratory Techniques Unit: 1 Common laboratory equipment and their functions 1.1 microscope: simple, compound and binocular 1. Simple microscope : it consists of single lens and single magnifying glass is the example of simple microscope. With the help of simple microscope the image of an object can be magnified up to 10x Fig: simple microscope (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscope) 2. Compound microscope : generally compound microscopes are used in the lab because it consists of different types of lenses. Compound microscope consists of two types of lenses. The magnified image of an object by one lens is further magnified by the second lens due to this the objects can be identified easily. The lenses used in the compound microscope are known as eye piece and objective lens. Fig: compound microscope (source: www.wikip...