• Question: what does the florescent coating do to help you study molecules ?

    Asked by to Nicola on 14 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Nicola Rogers answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      It allows us to see the fluorescence under the microscope so we can see where the particles are – the particles are too small to see under a normal brightfield microscope, because they are so small that the light transmits almost straight through them – but if we shine blue light on them they emit red light – and we can see this

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