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You can see smallpox with a microscope? I thought viruses were too small to be seen except by electron microscopes.



Good question. I never tried to look at them under the microscope so I have no clue what they showed. But I have no doubt there was a slide of small pox since after my grandpa died we found all sorts of weird shit in his basement. Big jar of mercury, giant moths, frogs, strange bugs in jars of formaldehyde and some even weirder shit.


Outside of an electron microscope not really, they are in the femtometer range.




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