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A liquid sample cell used in an optical measurement apparatus in which a liquid sample flows through a flow path of the sample cell while a measurement light travels through the liquid sample in the flow path. The liquid sample cell is composed of: a first glass plate and a second glass plate fixed to each other; a groove for constituting the flow path formed in the first glass plate by a photolithographic method; reflection layers formed on the internal surface of the groove and on the internal surface of the other glass plate; and an entrance window and an exit window formed in the reflection layers to let the measurement light into the flow path and to let the measurement light out from the flow path. The measurement light is reflected by the reflection layers many times in the flow path. Since the measurement light travels a long distance in the liquid sample, the sensitivity of the optical measurement is improved, while the capacity of the flow path is minimized preventing diffusion or mixture of components separated by a chromatographic column, for example.

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