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universal stage

A stage of three, four, or five axes of rotation, attached to the rotating stage of a polarized-light microscope, that enables a thin section or mineral grain under study to be turned in a precisely controlled fashion about three mutually orthogonal axes. It is used to determine precisely the optical properties and parameters of minerals or their orientation in a set of external coordinates.

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