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Definition of Trichite
1. n. A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.
Definition of Trichite
1. Noun. (minerology) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) A delicate, hair-like siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trichite
1. a minute mineral body found in volcanic rocks [n -S]
Medical Definition of Trichite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trichite
Literary usage of Trichite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elemente Der Geologie by Hermann Credner (1897)
"... (trichite). Nach Zirkel. durchsichtigen wasserhellen, in größeren Exemplaren
das Licht polarisierenden Belo- niten erscheinen in glasigen Gesteinen ..."
2. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1890)
"trichite, lii:i,i ). ... a needle), colorless and transparent. The trichite, he
states, is not pyrox- ene or hornblende ..."
3. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush, Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"383, 384, and in the accompanying text, the minus symbols should properly (according
to the principle on p. xxvii) be plus, and the reverse. trichite ..."
4. Manual of Mineralogy and Petrography: Containing the Elements of the Science by James Dwight Dana (1897)
"... pearly lustre from the Nevada Basin, having its trichite clusters very numerous,
and arranged in lines or planes, and some of the ..."
5. The Volcanoes of the Kula Basin in Lydia by Henry Stephens Washington (1894)
"Besides these glassy inclusions there were seen two olivine crys tals containing
peculiar trichite inclusions, such inclusions being, it may be stated, ..."
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