needle-shaped

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People who lived and worked in Libby breathed in the microscopic needle-shaped asbestos fibers that can cause the lung cancer mesothelioma or lung scarring called asbestosis, the lawsuit argues.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024

Conifers such as spruce, fir, and pine have needle-shaped leaves with sunken stomata, helping to reduce water loss.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

So Tarduno went searching for rocks of the right age containing tiny, needle-shaped crystals of the mineral titanomagnetite, which record the magnetic field’s strength at the time of their crystallization.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022

This new model showed needle-shaped bone mineral crystals twisting into and around the collagen fibers, entangling them in a stiff, spiral scaffold.

From Scientific American • May 3, 2018

Calcium carbonate sometimes crystallizes in needle-shaped crystals belonging to the rhombic system.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William