If one were to specially outfit an electron microscope to shoot a beam of electrons through a sample of water, how would the water deal with the beam? Would the water absorb and distort the electron beam? Thanks.
Any reasonably thick chunk of matter will absorb and distort an electron beam. You can get some electrons to pass through a very thin sample. I am not sure how you are going to slice water that thin. Ice perhaps? Or a film of water between 2 ultra thin coverslips?
Electron beams microscope sample chambers are in a hard vacuum. Remember that liquids can't exist in vacuums.
