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 Originally Posted by pantherhound
Hello Monkey
I've found a number of these types of videos that zoom in on things with an electron microscope, and I love them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNvdrpEmS48
What sort of preparation would one have to do to recreate a process like this, and is it because it's complicated that we don't see very many of them?
Hi, Panther.
The short answer is money. A cheap, used, low resolution microscope is going to cost in the tens of thousands. Those jobs can't go anywhere near the zoom shown in the video.
Something capable of producing that video definitely cost in the millions, perhaps up to 10 million... for the microscope. That's just one piece of the puzzle, and while that cost is a big chunk of the budget, it's not more than half the lifetime cost of building a lab around that machine, maintaining it and staffing it with high dollar technicians.
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