hand lens

Example Sentences

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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

Take some home and examine them with a hand lens, then with a microscope.

From Some Winter Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John