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HEMICRYSTALLINE [2 records]

Record 1 1999-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

Applied to igneous rocks made up partly of crystals and partly of glass.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Se dit des roches où il y a, à la fois, des cristaux et du verre [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 1986-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

spherulite. A spheroidal aggregate of one or more minerals having a radiate and often concentric structure, owing to the growth of prismatic or acicular crystals in a viscous magma or rigid glass about a common centre of inclusion. The rock, which may be hemicrystalline, devitrified, or still glassy, is said to have spherulitic structure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
OBS

adj. Harrap's Kettr.

Spanish

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