hand lens

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“We needed to lay on our bellies with a hand lens to observe the plant,” Guilliams said in an email.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023

This is where that hand lens is useful again, to distinguish between the two.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2021

Occasionally, one of them would cradle it in one palm and bring a hand lens to it with the other, inspecting the carnivorous plant that was their bounty.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2019

The Dunham Classification is based on rock texture, which is visible to the naked eye or using a hand lens and is easier for field applications.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

A hand lens costing from twenty cents to a dollar is almost indispensable in examining our seeds.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)