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Abrasive jet cutting, as a more efficient machining or cutting method, has emerged in recent years in mining and machining industries, but the knowledge about velocity profile of abrasive jet flow lacks in general. In practice, the Polyacrylamide (PAM) is generally applied to jet fluid to increase the suspension of the abrasive particles. Also, the effects of PAM on jet flow are not very clear. In this paper, velocity fields of both the abrasive particles and the fluid were systematically studied with the PIV technology. The slip velocity between the abrasive particle and the surrounding fluid was subtracted out to give a further description of abrasive suspension jet. The effects of polymer PAM on both the fluid flow and the movement of the suspending abrasive particles were also measured. And it is found that the PAM is a proper type of additive to improve velocity fields for both the abrasive particles and the fluid in a jet. The results of the PIV measurement can help give a better understanding about the basic physics of abrasive suspension jet flow, and a good guidance to validate and develop reliable computational models to describe the jet.