Even everyday items, such as cigarette paper, look completely foreign when viewed at 22-million-times magnification with an electron microscope. The electron microscope uses electrostatic and electromagnetic lenses to control the electron beam and focus it to form an image. These electron optical lenses are analogous to the glass lenses of a light optical microscope. Continue reading for more.

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