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Why can light microscopes produce images in their natural color, while scanning electron and transmission electron microscopes only produce grayscale images?

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The reason is pretty basic: color is a property of light (i.e., photons), and since electron microscopes use an electron beam to image a specimen, there's no color information recorded.

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there's no color info recored

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