The usual method of specimen preparation for electron‐probe microanalysis can introduce errors of up to about ±3% in the estimates of the amount of an element present. It is believed that these errors are caused by the formation of `flowed' layers on the surfaces of polished samples. Two methods of reducing the errors are described.
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