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Slit smearing effects have been experimentally investigated for a typical Bonse-Hart small-angle diffractometer. This instrument was found to satisfy the criteria for infinite slit-height configuration for a wide range of angular divergence-limiting schemes. Standard mathematical desmearing methods applied to the data show excellent agreement with scattering data obtained from an essentially slit-correctionless instrument.