Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous minute rudimentary, crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rocks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Whinstone cooled slowly after fusion.
- noun The term suggested by Vogelsang as a general name for aggregations of globulites in various forms. See cumulite, margarite, and longulite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called
trichites ,belonites ,globulites , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small region of a solid that consists of a single
crystal ; agrain
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock
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Examples
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A crystallite is a single grain in a poly crystaline substance.
unknown title 2009
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This can be alleviated by performing a short activation grinding, which dissociates the mineral bonds and consequently increases the specific surface area, and also fractures the crystallite structure which significantly increases the weatherability and therefore the solubility of these minerals.
Chapter 20 1993
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The coating has a high resistance to oxidation and prevents any plastic deformation of the nano-crystallite, eliminating any boundary slip in the matrix that forms the coating.
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The coating has a high resistance to oxidation and prevents any plastic deformation of the nano-crystallite, eliminating any boundary slip in the matrix that forms the coating.
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The coating has a high resistance to oxidation and prevents any plastic deformation of the nano-crystallite, eliminating any boundary slip in the matrix that forms the coating.
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The coating has a high resistance to oxidation and prevents any plastic deformation of the nano-crystallite, eliminating any boundary slip in the matrix that forms the coating.
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The coating has a high resistance to oxidation and prevents any plastic deformation of the nano-crystallite, eliminating any boundary slip in the matrix that forms the coating.
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The coating has a high resistance to oxidation and prevents any plastic deformation of the nano-crystallite, eliminating any boundary slip in the matrix that forms the coating.
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A grain or crystallite is a tiny cluster of atoms arranged in an orderly three-dimensional pattern.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The coating has a high resistance to oxidation and prevents any plastic deformation of the nano-crystallite, eliminating any boundary slip in the matrix that forms the coating.
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