Cryptocrystalline - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cryptocrystallineChalcedony
A cryptocrystalline translucent variety of quartz having usually a whitish color and a luster nearly like wax...
Cryptocrystalline
Indistinctly crystalline applied to rocks and minerals whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible even under the microscope...
Phanerocrystalline
Distinctly crystalline used of rocks Opposed to cryptocrystalline...
Pinite
A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color It is a hydrous alkaline silicate and is derived from the alteration of other minerals as iolite...
Porphyritic
Relating to or resembling porphyry that is characterized by the presence of distinct crystals as of feldspar quartz or augite in a relatively fine grained base often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline...
Prase
A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek green color...
Quartz
A form of silica or silicon dioxide SiO2 occurring in hexagonal crystals which are commonly colorless and transparent but sometimes also yellow brown purple green and of other colors also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency being sometimes opaque...
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