<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/westmont-news/microscope-offers-inspiration-atomic-scale.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>10/24/2023</pubDate><title>Microscope Offers Inspiration at the Atomic Scale</title><excerpt>Westmont’s science professors have obtained a new tool for their teaching and research. The biology, chemistry, engineering and physics departments will all use the Hitachi scanning electron microscope (SEM), housed in Winter Hall. Its focused beam of electrons interacts with atoms in the sample to produce an image.</excerpt><author>Scott Craig</author><image>
            
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