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
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
These are evergreen coniferous trees like pines, spruce, and fir, which retain their needle-shaped leaves year-round.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
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
In the care of Chokier, he discovered a polished and jointed needle-shaped bone, with a hole pierced through it, at its base.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
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