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Example sentences for "magnifying glass"

  • Why is a magnifying glass able to set things on fire when you let the sun shine through it?

  • Now hold a magnifying glass (reading glass) near the candle, between the candle and the paper, so that the light will shine through the lens on to the paper.

  • But you may be curious to know just how a magnifying glass works.

  • They are there by the thousand: a magnifying glass is required to reveal even a fragment of them.

  • Further, each of the gold lines is made of tiny gold balls, so small as only to be seen by means of a magnifying glass.

  • Viewed with a magnifying glass, the uncertain outlines of a shadowy face surmounted by a mass of piled-up hair resolve themselves into lines of writing, the words of which are quite intelligible and full of grim and unmistakable purpose.

  • The drawing, simple as it looked, was a communication in writing to those who used a magnifying glass to read it.

  • All that is required to perform the feat is to hold a magnifying glass so as to direct the sun's rays on the thread.

  • In front of cylinder place a piece of magnifying glass for a lens.

  • It is often so finely scratched that the aid of a magnifying glass is required to convince one that it actually exists; we found several such pieces of marble where the owl's head was painted in a black colour.

  • Peep show, a small show, or object exhibited, which is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass.

  • Optics) Defn: A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses.

  • Magnifying glass, a lens which magnifies the apparent dimensions of objects seen through it.

  • Defn: A machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass.

  • Miller, as the spinster picked up a magnifying glass.

  • But with eyes starting from his head, Whitney paused to snatch up a magnifying glass, and by its aid examined the finger prints minutely.

  • They are then examined by aid of a magnifying glass, and any fragments of phosphorus found separated and preserved under water.

  • These are easily recognized by aid of a magnifying glass.

  • Examine the sample with a magnifying glass (or pick glass) and notice whether the dressing is superficial or penetrates the substance of the fabric.

  • You may even pick out such shapes as these from the common crystallized brown sugar in the sugar basin, or see them with a magnifying glass on a lump of white sugar.

  • Thinking to amuse some of my friends, I one day kindled a flame by means of my magnifying glass and a few dry twigs.

  • A magnifying glass is most simply thought of as an additional lens to the eye.

  • But to apply a magnifying glass to distant objects is impossible.

  • This is exactly what is done in the telescope; the object glass or large lens forms an image, which is then looked at through a magnifying glass or eye-piece.

  • They are so minute, that they can only be detected with a magnifying glass.

  • Bee seen through a magnifying glass at the moment when the plates of wax appear between the segments of the abdomen.

  • By reflection from this mirror the focal plane and the images are shifted to F, where they may be examined from one side through the magnifying glass E.

  • They are in prodigious numbers,--hundreds being assembled in the small gall, and so minute as scarcely to be perceived without the aid of a magnifying glass.

  • But beside this, it is usually lined with a tapestry of silk, more or less thick, though this cannot always be discovered without the aid of a magnifying glass.

  • Her claws are admirably adapted for this purpose, as well as for walking along the lines, as may be readily seen by a magnifying glass.

  • To look at some of them by the help of a magnifying glass we should imagine that they were covered with very fine lace net, others appear as if some clever engraver had been chasing some intricate design upon their surface.


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