21. Every thin section cut can be processed like any other soft tissue of the body. 22. Photomicrograph of a thin section of eclogite from Turkey. 23. Thin sections and powders can be used as samples.24. His research team sliced the brain in thin sections and examined them under a microscope. 25. In most cases, a hand specimen of the rock is accompanied by a thin section . 26. For many years, holmquistite was mistaken for glaucophane, as the two look identical in thin section . 27. Neuroscientist Anders Sandberg has been practicing on the method of scanning ultra-thin sections of the brain. 28. Michel-L�vy pioneered the use of birefringence to identify minerals in thin section with a petrographic microscope. 29. The use of resins will solidify samples so that thin sections could be obtained for electron micrography. 30. Thin sections are prepared in order to investigate the optical properties of the minerals in the rock.