crystallites

They formed the orange crystals; the black spots are voids with smaller crystallites inside.

Wired Puts Your Thanksgiving Feast Under a Microscope Tom Conlon 2007

"Designed to propagate as volcanic crystallites, spreading from cone to cone—" added another young geologist.

Firestorm L.A Graf 2000

And while all on board were contemplating these sounds, the ship suddenly careened a-starboard, a harsh, grating noise was heard overhead, and quantities of broken crystallites began falling on deck.

The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family A. R. [Illustrator] Waud

Both the quartz and orthoclase contain dust inclusions and crystallites, while the evidences of shearing and crushing are abundant.

The Long Labrador Trail Dillon Wallace 1901

The rock, which is of a granitic composition, contains numerous crystallites and has been subjected to considerable strain and crushing, which has resulted in foliation.

The Long Labrador Trail Dillon Wallace 1901

Relatively large crystallites (first, only a few microns in size but, eventually, larger than 1 mm and visible by a naked eye) were obtained by the technique.

Haddock Links blackbeltjones 2010

Manchester University managed to extract single-atom-thick crystallites (graphene) from bulk graphite in 2004.

Haddock Links blackbeltjones 2010

Nascent 2D crystallites try to minimize their surface energy and inevitably morph into one of the rich variety of stable 3D structures that occur in soot.

Haddock Links blackbeltjones 2010

"As we make smaller and smaller devices, we've been using more nanocrystalline materials that have much smaller crystallites -- what materials scientists call grains -- and are believed to be much stronger," said Kevin Hemker, professor and chair of Mechanical Engineering in Johns Hopkins 'Whiting School of Engineering and senior author of the

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

Low pH, caused by acidic beverages or gastric juices (pH 1-4), destroys the enamel surface by partial and complete dissolution of the enamel crystallites, resulting in the release of

Naturejobs - All Jobs Matthias Hannig 2010