Splintery: alternatives and connections

Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fractu…

Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granul…

To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to br…

The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in co…

Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.

Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.

Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.

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

A forcible of bones without fracture.

The ability of a material to stretch or bend without breaking.

Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.

To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.

To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal bed…

A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

Small pieces or splinters; fragments.