Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oxyhydrogen microscope

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oxy-hy-dro-gen mi-cro-scope
IPA

47

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A 19th‑century projection microscope that used an intensely bright oxyhydrogen flame to throw greatly magnified images of microscopic specimens onto a screen for audiences.

Example Sentences

"Some declared it was a yard long; others were frightened, and instantly dropped it, and all were as much astonished, and made as much shouting and gesticulation, as children at a pantomime, or at a Christmas exhibition of the oxyhydrogen microscope. And all this excitement was produced by a little pocket lens, an inch and a half focus, and therefore magnifying only four or five times, but which to their unaccustomed eyes appeared to enlarge a hundred fold."

Inflected Forms

oxyhydrogen microscopes (plural)

Questions

What does oxyhydrogen microscope mean?: A 19th‑century projection microscope that used an intensely bright oxyhydrogen flame to throw greatly magnified images of microscopic specimens onto a screen for audiences.

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