abbe condenser

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   a condenser having 2 or 3 lenses with wide aperture for use in microscopes

   Broadercondenser

Questions about abbe condenser

What does abbe condenser mean?

abbe condenser means "a condenser having 2 or 3 lenses with wide aperture for use in microscopes".

Is abbe condenser a common word?

abbe condenser is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.