Polishing method

摘要

A polishing method suitable for use in working a surface of a magnetic material such as materials of magnetic head into a mirror-finished surface. The work is placed in a treating liquid cell such that its surface to be worked is opposed by the surface of a lap. The treating liquid contains fine polishing grains of magnesium oxide as the polishing agent, by an amount less than 4 wt %, and may contain 10 to 30 wt % of glycerol for increasing the viscosity. As a relative movement occurs between the work and the lap, the treating liquid forms a state of a dynamic-pressure bearing between the opposing surfaces of the work and lap, so that the surface of the work is polished into mirror surface by the action of the magnesium oxide without contacting the lap directly.