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The best way to illustrate the disadvantages of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) over a conventional microscope might best be shown by a comparison. Imagine using a pair of field glasses to watch birds in a heavily wooded area. Now imagine watching those birds in the same area with an 8" reflecting telescope and a "big" eyepiece. You could be looking at a bird with the telescope and not know it because you wouldn't even be able to see the whole bird.

The STM can map a single atom on the surface of a sample with its probe, but it cannot show us the shape of a single celled animal because it is extremely powerful -- too powerful for that application. The microscope is something we can use all day to study tiny animals like, say, an amoeba.

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