"thin section" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Davis Young, Mind over Magma: The Story of Igneous Petrology, page 150",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A thin, optically flat sliver of a material, especially a rock or mineral, that can be used in microscopy."
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        "(mineralogy) A thin, optically flat sliver of a material, especially a rock or mineral, that can be used in microscopy."
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