planar

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At the Tunguska site, researchers found shocked quartz showing clear planar fractures, some of which were filled with meltglass.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025

Inside its granite layers, researchers discovered numerous grains of quartz marked by tiny structures known as planar deformation features.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025

He had spent his life building a planar model of his ascent to the presidency, only to get whacked in the head by an unforeseen z-axis.

From Slate • Sep. 27, 2025

Previously, achieving π-stacking in similar norcorroles failed because hydrogen-bonding interactions between the side chains opposed the face-to-face stacking of the planar antiaromatic units.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

It was composed of dazzling blue metal with an almost mirror shine to it, as smooth as water, and nowhere rectilinear or planar, but all flowing contours, as supple as skin.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor