acicular

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Further along the tube it is slowly deposited in a porcelain like form, while further still the sublimate of sulphide takes the form of brilliant acicular crystals.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various

Hyoscyamine crystallizes in the acicular form, with greater difficulty even than atropine, it also forms less compact crystals.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 by Various

It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, and the crystals are either prismatic or acicular in habit.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

The fragments are angular or rounded, small or large, and consist of bluish or reddish compact feldspathic matter, in which a few acicular crystals of feldspar can sometimes be seen.

From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles

It was a ravishing country, a fairy-country of blue skies and fleecy clouds; of acicular summits and sharp-edged crags; of mist-hung valleys shimmering in the sun; of black chasms dizzily bridged by scarlet-flowered vines.

From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright