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Effect of Tube-Length on the Visibility of Dust Particles with an Oil-immersion Objective

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THE phenomenon described by Messrs. Beadle and Patterson in NATURE of August 19, p. 327, is well known to practical microscopists, since it occurs whenever a considerable change in the working aperture of a wide-angled objective is made, and admits of a simple explanation.

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OCKENDEN, F. Effect of Tube-Length on the Visibility of Dust Particles with an Oil-immersion Objective. Nature 144, 516 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144516b0

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