Talk:Optical microscope

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This article appears to have no or very little information on the polarisation microscope typically used in petrology, ore microscopes for the study of opaque ore minerals (typically with polarisation and sometimes combined with the transmission polarisation microscope), and the metallographic microscope (partly similar to the ore microscope).150.227.15.253 (talk) 17:25, 3 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

I definitely agree, and reflected-light microscopy overall is a very poorly-covered topic on Wikipedia in general. I'm working on a separate article on that very topic, and once it's gone live, I'll add a short summary to this article. Polarized light and other types of optical contrast enhancement are also very poorly covered in this article, being consigned to a section called "Other microscope variants" that is basically a list of links to other articles. There is a standalone article for petrographic microscope that covers the basics of that topic, however. Peter G Werner (talk) 16:40, 27 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Microscope slides

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There are many types of microscopes, such as:plain microscope slides ,single frosted microscope slides,double frosted microscope sliedes,concave micorscope slides,color frosted microscope slides! Huidaxialanqin34527 (talk) 08:42, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Microscope slides are their own topic. There are certain different types of slides, although I would not say that the above list is a correct categorization. "Frosted" microscope slides are simply where you write information about your sample and have nothing to do with the function of the slide itself. Peter G Werner (talk) 16:34, 27 June 2025 (UTC)Reply