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tridymite
[ trid-uh-mahyt ]
noun
, Mineralogy.
- a polymorph of quartz occurring in the form of small crystals, commonly twinned, in siliceous volcanic rocks.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tridymite1
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Example Sentences
The crystals, called cristobalite and tridymite, swim in clouds around stars just before they begin to form planets.
From The Daily Beast
When crystalline grains or blebs of quartz occur, we have a quartz-trachyte; when tridymite is abundant, as in the trachyte of Co.
From Project Gutenberg
Spherulites may be regarded as radiate aggregates of such microliths (mostly felspar mixed with quartz or tridymite).
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