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See Gobulin.

Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak.

Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.

Same as Hematocrystallin.

See Hemoglobin.

Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.

Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.

Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.

Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.

Imperfectly crystallized.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.

A crystalline derivative of salicylic acid, used as an antiseptic and antirheumatic.