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- Crystallite - n. - 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.
- Trichite - n. - A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.
- Longulite - n. - A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.