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Example sentences for "acicular"

Lexicographically close words:
achromatism; acht; acia; acian; acians; acid; acide; acides; acidi; acidic
  1. One, named Einerguendi by Brown, consisted of compact felspar, coloured green by chlorite, with grains of quartz and acicular crystals of felspar.

  2. The lower surface or hymenium is frequently rough with numerous acicular projections, making the plant look like a Hydnum when viewed horizontally.

  3. The pileus is everywhere pruinose-pubescent and the gills bear numerous spine-like or acicular cystidia or spicules, 4–5µ long.

  4. The second forms white acicular crystals from a nitro-muriatic acid solution; these, when heated, being softened and reduced.

  5. The genus Cannorrhaphis differs from the preceding closely allied Cannobelos in the spiny shape of the tangential acicular spicula, which are studded either with short spines or with longer lateral branches.

  6. Cannorrhaphida# with a skeleton composed of tubular acicular pieces, which are spiny, cylindrical or spindle-shaped tangential needles, either with lateral spines or branches.

  7. Cannorrhaphida# with a skeleton composed of tubular acicular pieces, which are smooth, cylindrical or spindle-shaped tangential needles, without spines and branches.

  8. At many other localities the mineral takes the form of radiating groups of acicular crystals, such as those from the haematite mines of west Cumberland: beautiful feathery forms have been found in a limestone cave in the Transvaal.

  9. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, and the crystals are either prismatic or acicular in habit.

  10. A careful inspection of the precipitate through a lens of small power shows it to consist of minute acicular crystals; and seen through a glass which magnifies 100 times, these crystals present the form of right rhombic prisms.

  11. Salicylic acid is a white solid which forms acicular crystals; it melts at from 155 deg.

  12. Nitraniline forms yellow, acicular crystals, little soluble in cold water, but freely soluble in alcohol and ether.

  13. The picrate of silver forms beautiful starry groups of acicular crystals, having the colour and lustre of gold.

  14. Satiny, acicular crystals, which are rather more soluble in water than those of the sulphate.

  15. Ferrous lactate is a greenish-white salt; and when pure, forms small acicular or prismatic crystals, which have a sweetish ferruginous taste, and are soluble in about 48 parts of cold and in 12 parts of boiling water.

  16. A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure.

  17. A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.

  18. Defn: A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure.

  19. Defn: A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.

  20. After treating the latter with animal charcoal, dissolving in ether and evaporating the latter, there remain colorless, acicular crystals of the odor and taste of vanilla.

  21. Such an adulteration can be detected with the microscope, since vanillin crystallizes in acicular crystals, and benzoic acid in lamina, which can be readily recognized.

  22. Acicular crystals are also to be met with, more yellow than red in color, and are sometimes present in great abundance, although they may be wholly absent.

  23. Yellow, acicular crystals, insoluble in cold alcohol, ether, and water.

  24. Under the microscope butterine does not appear to consist of acicular crystals of fat, but of irregular masses, containing a few butter globules, particles of curd, and crystals of salt.

  25. By re-solution in alcohol it may be obtained under the form of colourless, prismatic, acicular crystals.

  26. Green, acicular crystals; deliquescent; soluble in alcohol, the flame of which it colours green.

  27. By repeated solutions in alcohol it may be obtained under the form of white, silky, acicular crystals.

  28. Spores of Bacidia fuscorubella to illustrate the several-celled, hyaline, acicular type.

  29. Here I must once for all protest against the tendency of some opponents of Eozoon to confound these structures and the canal system of Eozoon with the acicular crystals, and dendritic or coralloidal forms, observed in some minerals.

  30. The fragments are angular or rounded, small or large, and consist of bluish or reddish compact feldspathic matter, in which a few acicular crystals of feldspar can sometimes be seen.

  31. Orbigny states that some of these crystals are acicular and more than even nine inches in length ("Voyage Geolog.

  32. The cortical leaf is the sheath; the liber leaf is probably the fat leaf; the wood leaf the acicular leaf.

  33. Crystals are prismatic, acicular or scaly in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the brachypinacoid (M in the figure).

  34. Sammetblende or przibramite is a variety, from Przibram in Bohemia, consisting of delicate acicular or capillary crystals arranged in radiating groups with a velvety surface and yellow colour.

  35. In the same manner I treated the acicular leaves, and portions of the stem separately, both being previously cut up into small pieces, and from both I obtained phenol.


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    Other words:
    acute; barbed; horned; horny; peaked; peaky; pointed; pronged; sharp; spiked; spined; spiny; tapered; tapering; tined; peaked; peaky; pointed; pronged; sharp; spiked; spined; spiny; tapered; tapering; tined