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THE nature of polish has aroused considerable interest for nearly three centuries. Thus Hooke1, in 1665, showed that grinding merely forms grooves, the fineness of which is determined by the grain-size of the abrasive, and from this he argued that the effect of a polishing powder was simply to cut very fine grooves. Herschel2 supported this hypothesis in that he regarded polishing as equivalent to a grinding action producing grooves of such fineness as to be invisible under the microscope.
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Finch, G., Quarrell, A. The Beilby Layer. Nature 137, 516–519 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137516a0
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