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>>geox+(OP)
> cut the sample into around 5,000 slices — each just 34 nanometres thick — that could be imaged using electron microscopes.

Does anyone have any insight into how this is done without damaging the sample?

>>eminen+k5
Using a Microtome (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtome).

>>talsit+S5
NB: tome in Microtome has the same root as the T in CAT scan: computer aided tomography. Which is to say, slimly-sliced cabbage^W X-ray scans.

It's also the tome as in book, more properly one volume of a multi-volume (or multi-part) set, though it now generally simply means any large book.

<https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=tome>