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Petrographic Preparation – how and why to frost your slide

Petrographic Preparation – how and why to frost your slide

In petrographic preparation, and in some other analyses, it is necessary to examine the structure of materials using light transmitted through the specimen.  For this to work effectively on rocks and minerals, the sample needs to be extremely thin – typically 5-30 microns.  Many applications need the thickness of the

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