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Definition of Paramorphs
1. paramorph [n] - See also: paramorph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paramorphs
Literary usage of Paramorphs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions (1908)
"The paramorphs appear less fibrous, with indications in them of hornblende cleavage.
Grains and bundles of the same brilliantly polarizing actinolite are in ..."
2. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Study of Minerals and Crystals by Edward Henry ( Kraus, Walter Fred Hunt (1920)
"paramorphs.—In these a molecular rearrangement has taken place, ... paramorphs are
possible only in the case of polymorphous substances. ..."
3. The Data of Geochemistry by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1908)
"Calcite is by far the more abundant form, and it is also the more stable."
Aragonite alters easily to paramorphs of calcite, but the reverse change rarely, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"As the calcite retains to some extent the columnar structure of the aragonite
the specimens are paramorphs. Occasional calcite crystals are found in ..."
5. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1903)
"387, 1902, ably defends his statements regarding paramorphs of pyrite and marcasite
and his theory that the density affords a criterion for composition; ..."
6. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"paramorphs. — Pseudomorphs composed of the material ... substance without addition
or subtraction of any component are known as paramorphs. ..."
7. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1903)
"387, 1902, ably defends his statements regarding paramorphs of pyrite and marcasite
and his theory that the density affords a criterion for composition ..."
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