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
Catechu-tannic acid is an amorphous body soluble in cold water, while catechin occurs in minute, white, silky, needle-shaped crystals, which do not dissolve in cold water.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
