NOUN
- a needlelike part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal; as a spine or bristle or crystal
How To Use acicula In A Sentence
- The majority of the zircon crystals from the three samples are light yellow, well-faceted, acicular crystals with few to no signs of mechanical abrasion.
- The results show that the microstructure of the alloys system is the compound of the acicular martensite and partial residual austenite. From the matrix, the composite carbides were precipitated.
- It can readily be recognised by its acicular, needle-like leaves, and more particularly by its peculiarly shaped seed vessel, which resembles the pattern on an old-fashioned Indian shawl. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
- It occurs as smooth compact clusters of dark blue-green acicular crystals, typically in association with hemimorphite and occasionally with conichalcite and agardite in all the mines.
- They often have grown around pre-existing acicular goethite crystals in random orientation, clearly demonstrating the quartz to be of a later growth.
- Bionic acicular nano hydroxyapatite(n HA) was used to make composites with medical grade polyamide (Poly hexamethylene adipamide) by solution blend.
- The acicular crystals are sometimes intergrown or twinned, causing a distortion that results in seemingly single crystals with relatively fat bases tapering to pointed terminations.
- Bionic acicular nano hydroxyapatite(n HA) was used to make composites with medical grade polyamide (Poly hexamethylene adipamide) by solution blend.
- Small acicular rutile crystals are found in cavities in various quarries in the Carrara, Tuscany district, Italy.
- An arboreous Gardenia, as at Mergui; Myrtacea, Vitex, Bauhinia of yesterday; Randia, Andropogon aciculare; some stunted bamboos were likewise observed. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries