thin section

A thin, optically flat sliver of a material, especially a rock or mineral, that can be used in microscopy.

Noun

  1. A thin, optically flat sliver of a material, especially a rock or mineral, that can be used in microscopy.
    • The purpose of this book is to illustrate the appearance of many of the common rock-forming minerals in thin section under the microscope. - 1980, W. S. Mackenzie, C. Guilford, Atlas of rock-forming minerals in thin...
    • Before long, as Dawson (1992) pointed out, Sorby (1863) also made thin sections of some of the fused charges of basalt produced by Sir James Hall. - 2003, Davis Young, Mind over Magma: The Story of Igneous Petrology,...
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thin, section.

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