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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uh-sik-yuh-ler |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈsɪk yə lər |
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Définition of acicular
- adj pointed
- By repeated solutions in alcohol it may be obtained under the form of white, silky, acicular crystals.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
- By re-solution in alcohol it may be obtained under the form of colourless, prismatic, acicular crystals.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
- It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, and the crystals are either prismatic or acicular in habit.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 » by Various
- They were not small and acicular, were nearly alike in the three basins, and had effloresced only on a few minute points.
- Extract from : « Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 » by Various
- Acicular, as-ik′ū-lar, adj. needle-shaped; slender and sharp-pointed.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
- Usually of a white or light greenish color and vitreous lustre, in acicular crystallizations.
- Extract from : « The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis » by Frederick Hutton Getman
- Nitraniline forms yellow, acicular crystals, little soluble in cold water, but freely soluble in alcohol and ether.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
- The picrate of silver forms beautiful starry groups of acicular crystals, having the colour and lustre of gold.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
- Palpi very slightly curved; second joint brown on the outer side; third acicular, a little shorter than the second.
- Extract from : « Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 » by Various
- Valve very narrow, lanceolate, acicular, with obtuse apices.
- Extract from : « The Diatomaceae of Philadelphia and Vicinity » by Charles Sumner Boyer
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