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Definition of Microcrystalline
1. Adjective. Containing crystals that are visible only under a microscope.
Definition of Microcrystalline
1. a. Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
Definition of Microcrystalline
1. Adjective. Composed of microscopic crystals ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Microcrystalline
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Microcrystalline
Literary usage of Microcrystalline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Sir Archibald Geikie (1897)
"While the microcrystalline structure is everywhere recognizable, the spherulites
occasionally disappear. But their absence is merely local, and they may be ..."
2. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1897)
"When an evident microcrystalline structure has been set up as a secondary
alteration, it probably indicates, as a rule, something more than the merely ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1901)
"... is a microcrystalline powder freely soluble in water, [a]D 15° = +6-1°. ...
O, is a microcrystalline powder stable in the air. ..."
4. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1878)
"Paste, microcrystalline; color, middle to dark gray; weathers dark- brown. ...
Paste microcrystalline. Color pitch-black, with fatty lustre. Very compact. ..."
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