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Crystallite

A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.

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Crystal 76% connected

The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces…

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Crystallization 76% connected

The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

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Amphibole noun · 78% connection

A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, general…

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Anorthite noun · 78% connection

A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime…

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Augite noun · 78% connection

dark-green to black glassy mineral of the pyroxene group containing large amounts of aluminum and iron and magnesium

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Bead noun · 78% connection

A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as…

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Belonite noun · 78% connection

Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

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Cabazite noun · 78% connection

A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicat…

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Chrysolite noun · 78% connection

A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also…

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Contour noun · 78% connection

The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.

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Definite adjective · 78% connection

Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definit…

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Delineation noun · 78% connection

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of…

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Dendrite noun · 78% connection

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of…

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Devitrification noun · 78% connection

The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a sto…

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Eruptive adjective · 78% connection

Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.

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Foliation noun · 78% connection

The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of…

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Glassy adjective · 78% connection

Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy…

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Glaucophane noun · 78% connection

A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.

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Hypocrystalline adjective · 78% connection

Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.

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Ilmenite noun · 78% connection

a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titan…

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