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Definition of Paramorph
1. n. A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite.
Definition of Paramorph
1. Noun. (minerology) A kind of pseudomorph in which there has been a change of physical characteristics without alteration of chemical composition, as in the change of aragonite to calcite. ¹
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Definition of Paramorph
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Literary usage of Paramorph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1903)
"Finally the interior of the paramorph is seen to be more or less completely composed
... Although as a rule the paramorph becomes dispersed and its pyroxene ..."
2. Guide to the Mineral Collections in the Illinois State Museum by Alja Robinson Crook, Illinois State Museum (1920)
"... the same composition by simply altering its form, it is called a paramorph.
... A paramorph can be detected, for example, when an aragonite crystal is ..."
3. Guide to the Mineral Collections in the Illinois State Museum by Illinois State Museum, Alja Robinson Crook (1920)
"When one mineral changes into another of the same composition by simply altering
its form, it is called a paramorph. When it changes into the form of a ..."
4. Elementary Crystallography: Being Part One of General Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1910)
"A paramorph is a pseudomorph of one form of a dimorphous body after the other
... Here we have an example of a paramorph of orthorhombic sulphur after the ..."
5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"Or, if there be a crystalline paramorph of amorphous "serpentine," is this its
fibrous deposit from lateral infiltration* into rock fissures? ..."
6. Elementary Crystallography: Being Part One of General Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1910)
"Here we have an example of a paramorph of orthorhombic sulphur after the monoclinic
variety. Two Classes of Pseudomorphs.—The processes described above as ..."
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