Meanings
ballas1
nounballas (plural ballases)
plural ballases
- chemistryA spherical aggregate of small diamond grains that have a radial or granular structure.
Ballases with smooth even surface yield X-ray patterns of rings only, without noticeable spots or with very small spots, which is an evidence of a fine-ray radial structure of these spherulites.
1987, L. F. Vereshchagin, Synthetic Diamonds and Hydrostatic Extrusion, Selected Papers, page 89
noun
- pluralplural of balla
Ballas2
proper noun
- A surname.
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