microcrystallite

noun

A microscopic crystallite.

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Meanings

nounmicrocrystallite (plural microcrystallites)

plural microcrystallites

  1. A microscopic crystallite.

    This was revealed only in the experiments of ion bombardment of single crystals, because a polycrystalline material, even though its microcrystallites have a regular structure, in fact behaves like a nonarranged, random system.

    1966, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in .in Ionized Gases

Origin

From micro- + crystallite.

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