CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE

Definition: CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE

CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE

Adjective

1. Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. Said of the texture of a rock consisting of crystals that are too small to be recognized and separately distinguished even under the ordinary microscope (although crystallinity may be shown by use of the electron microscope); indistinctly crystalline, as evidenced by a confused aggregate effect under polarized light. Also, said of a rock with such a texture. Syn:microaphanitic; microcryptocrystalline; microcrystalline; microfelsitic. CF:dubiocrystalline b. Said of a rock or rock texture of a crystalline rock in which the crystals are too small to be recognized megascopically. This usage is not recommended until crystallinity can be established by polarized-light microscopy or X-ray diffraction. Syn:aphanitic c. Descriptive of a crystalline texture of a carbonate sedimentary rock having discrete crystals with maximum diameters variously set at 1 mu m, 4mu m, and 10 mu m. (references)
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Rhyming with "CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE"

Words rhyming with "CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE" (pronounced 'Cryp`to*crys"tal*line'): Acauline, Acervuline, Aline, Alkaline, Amygdaline, Anticline, Aquiline, Baculine, Bandoline, Benzoline, Berylline, Bowline, Bubaline, Buntline, Caballine, Cappeline, Capreoline, Cauline, Choline, Chrysaniline, Cinnoline, Circuline, Clothesline, Colline, Contline, Corolline, Corrovaline, Cosmoline, Crepusculine, Crinoline, Crotaline, Flavaniline, Fringilline, Gantline, Ghibelline, Girtline, Glyoxaline, headline, indiscipline, Leucaniline, Leucoline, Limicoline, Lobeline, Lurchline, marteline, masculine, Mauvaniline, Melaniline, Microcline, microcrystalline. (additional references)

Anagrams: CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE

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	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-l-n-o-p-r-r-s-t-t-y-y"
	-5 letters: entropically, narcoleptics, prostacyclin, reciprocally, synoptically, tectonically, torrentially.
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