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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The plumbago occurs both amorphous, and in long acicular crystals.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold
Soon Birdie and myself were a mass of acicular crystals; it was a true easterly fog.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Besides inulin, C12H20O10, a body isomeric with starch, the root contains helenin, C6H8O, a stearoptene, which may be prepared in white acicular crystals, insoluble in water, but freely soluble in alcohol.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
Mī′crolith, a name suggested by Vogelsang in 1867 for the microscopic acicular components of rocks.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
In this disease cartilage, ligaments, and tendons, bone-marrow, muscle, the endocardium and aorta, the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, the skin and kidneys, may contain deposits of acicular crystals and amorphous granules.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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