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CRYSTALLITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crystallite mean?
• CRYSTALLITE (noun)
The noun CRYSTALLITE has 1 sense:
1. any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock
Familiarity information: CRYSTALLITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("crystallite" is a kind of...):
crystal; crystallization (a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces)
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