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Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.

Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.

To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in cons…

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

A kind of soft sweetmeat made by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, usually molded; as, cherry fondant.

To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.

small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population. Fractional crystallization (Chem.), a process of gradual and approximate purification and separation, by means of repeated solution and crystallization therefrom. -- Fractional currency, small coin, or paper notes, in circulation, of less v…

sley. Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage. False galena. See Blende.

ral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common…

To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

Having six sides and six angles; six-sided. Hexagonal system. (Crystal.) See under Crystallization.

chemically combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.

A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization.

Containing water of hydration or crystallization.

allized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.

Noting, or conforming to, that system of crystallization in which the three axes are of equal length and at right angles to each other; monometric; regular; cubic. Cf. Crystallization. Isometric lines (Thermodynamics), lines representing in a diagram the relations of pressure and temperature in a gas, when the volume r…

ugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin.

The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.