acicular
Americanadjective
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shaped like a needle.
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Metallurgy.
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(of cast iron) containing ferrite in a needlelike form.
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(of an alloy) having a microstructure of needlelike components.
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Sammetblende or przibramite is a variety, from Przibram in Bohemia, consisting of delicate acicular or capillary crystals arranged in radiating groups with a velvety surface and yellow colour.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
It is the methyl ester of a neutral body colchicein, which may be obtained in white acicular crystals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Delicate acicular crystals of considerable length were found long ago in the Pentire Glaze mine near St Minver in Cornwall.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
One, named Einerguendi by Brown, consisted of compact felspar, coloured green by chlorite, with grains of quartz and acicular crystals of felspar.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas
The fragments are angular or rounded, small or large, and consist of bluish or reddish compact feldspathic matter, in which a few acicular crystals of feldspar can sometimes be seen.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
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