Editing Micrograph (section)

{{Short description|Process for producing pictures with a microscope}}
{{About|photography using microscopes|images formed with tiny letters|Micrography|miniaturized photographs|Microphotograph}}
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[[Image:WVSOM Meissner's corpuslce.JPG|thumb|right|100× light micrograph of [[Meissner's corpuscle]] at the tip of a dermal papillus]]
[[Image:Dogrectum40x3.jpg|thumb|40× micrograph of a canine [[rectum]] cross section]]
[[Image:CarmelOoids.jpg|thumb|A photomicrograph of a thin section of a [[limestone]] with [[ooid]]s. The largest is approximately 1.2 mm in diameter. The red object in the lower left is a ''scale bar'' indicating relative size.]]
[[File:Doubledate.jpg|thumb|Approximately 10× micrograph of a [[doubled die]] on a coin, where the date was punched twice in the die used to strike the coin]]

A '''micrograph''' is an image, captured [[photograph]]ically or digitally, taken through a [[microscope]] or similar device to show a [[magnify|magnified]] image of an object. This is opposed to a [[macrograph]] or photomacrograph, an image which is also taken on a microscope but is only slightly magnified, usually less than 10 times. '''Micrography'''  is the practice or art of using microscopes to make photographs. A photographic micrograph is a '''photomicrograph''', and one taken with an [[electron microscope]] is an '''electron micrograph'''.

A micrograph contains extensive details of microstructure. A wealth of information can be obtained from a simple micrograph like behavior of the material under different conditions, the phases found in the system, failure analysis, grain size estimation, elemental analysis and so on. Micrographs are widely used in all fields of microscopy.