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Another protocol to make sulfur embedded ultrathin sections was developed for STXM-XANES, AFM-IR and TEM analyses of organic materials in small extraterrestrial samples. Polymerized liquid sulfur-instead of low-viscosity liquid sulfur-is the embedding media in this protocol. Due to high viscosity of the polymerized sulfur, the embedded samples stay near the surface of polymerized liquid sulfur, which facilitates trimming of glassy sulfur and ultramicrotomy of tiny embedded samples. In addition, well-continued ribbons of ultramicrotomed sections can be obtained, which are suitable for the above mentioned analyses. Because there is no remarkable difference in Carbon XANES spectra of Murchison IOM prepared by this protocol and by the conventional protocol, this protocol gives another alternative to prepare sulfur embedded ultramicrotomed sections.
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