acicular
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One, named Einerguendi by Brown, consisted of compact felspar, coloured green by chlorite, with grains of quartz and acicular crystals of felspar.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Thomas Mitchell
These brown-coloured, compact lavas, consist almost entirely of small glimmering scales, or of minute acicular crystals, of feldspar, placed close by the side of each other, and abounding with minute black specks, apparently of hornblende.
From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
Spher′ūle, a little sphere; Spher′ūlite, a radiating spherical group of minute acicular crystals common in silicious volcanic rocks.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
One fissure was completely lined with exquisite, acicular crystals of sulphur, which perished with a touch.
From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Usually of a white or light greenish color and vitreous lustre, in acicular crystallizations.
From The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis by Frederick Hutton Getman
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