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Macroscopic is when something is large enough to be perceived or examined by the unaided eye.

Where as microscopic is where you need an eye aid to help examine it. For example: for a rock you could examine it with your eyes without the use of a microscope, it would be macroscopic. The microscopic cell beside it, which you cannot see without a microscope, would be microscopic.

The Microscopic world is the system which has the small scale (size), of order of atomic dimension (about 10 A or less), and it characterizes the properties of individual particles, but Macroscopic world is the system which has the large scale (size) which can be seen with ordinary sense (of order of one micron) and it characterize the system as whole .

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