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Microscopy Method in Resolving Power:
The obvious purpose of microscope is to magnify the object, but in addition and essentially, it must also resolve the finer details of the object. Thus, the basic difficulty in designing a microscope is not the magnification, but the ability of lens system to distinguish two adjacent points as distinct and separate. This ability is known a the resolving power of the microscope. The useful magnification of micro­scope is that which gives clear image and need not necessarily the highest magnification. .