cryptocrystalline

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Definitions

noun

A rock of this kind.

adjective

Whose crystalline nature only becomes apparent at high levels of magnification.

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Synonyms

groundmass magnesite aragonite macrocrystalline hypercrystalline microcryptocrystalline hypocrystalline phanerocrystalline cryptomorphic holocrystalline mesocrystalline pseudocrystalline quasicrystalline microrecrystallized xenomorphic crystalline

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