crystalliten.

1798 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Sept. 287 The artificially crystallized substances have been denoted, at Dr. Hope's suggestion, by the name of crystallite.

1804 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 2) II. 284 The whin of Salisbury Crag fuses at 55°; its glass at 24°; its crystallite at 38°.

1814 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. I. 219 Instead of being disseminated in the obsidian, like crystallites, they are found simply adhering to one of the external surfaces of this substance.

1897 A. Geikie Founders Geol. iv. 187 This substance had a distinctly crystalline structure, and Hall gave it the name of crystallite.

1990 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 134 205 To Kirwan, the different fusion temperatures of the crystalites (his spelling) showed they were in a different state than their original one.

1871 Amer. Chemist June 472/2 A review of Prof. Vogelsang's article on crystallites published in the Archives Neerlandaises.

1881 J. W. Judd Volcanoes iii. 53 Those minute particles of definite form, which the microscope has revealed in the midst of the glassy portions of lava, have received the name of microliths, or crystallites.

1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 568/2 Crystallites may also be produced by allowing a solution of sulphur in carbon disulphide mixed with Canada balsam to evaporate slowly.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VII. 10/2 Crystallites..abound in glassy rocks in which rapid consolidation has arrested further growth.

2006 M. O'Donoghue Gems (ed. 6) xxi. 357 The texture [of obsidian] is seen to consist of a clear glassy ground containing many small crystallites.

1895 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 17 794 From the grouping of three systems of fibers respectively parallel to the three sides of a triangle he [sc. Osmond] regards them as crystallites of the cubical system.

1914 Jrnl. Inst. Metals 11 64 The ‘crystal grains’ of ordinary cast metals arise in this way, their boundaries being produced by the mutual interference of neighbouring crystallites.

1962 J. H. Simpson & R. S. Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors iii. 39 To minimize the formation of improperly oriented crystallites on the surface of the main crystal..the seed is slowly rotated as it is withdrawn.

2006 K. D. Rose Beginning Age Mammals ii. 29/1 In most mammals, however, the crystallites combine into bundles called prisms, each of which is surrounded by a prism sheath, also composed of crystallites.

1924 Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists 40 122/1 The crystallites lie as originally with their axes in the direction of the fibre.

1946 E. I. Valko in J. Alexander Colloid Chem. VI. xxix. 595 A single macromolecule can..traverse disorganized regions, so that it belongs to different crystalline regions. As a consequence, the size of the organized regions, i.e., the ‘crystallites’, is not determined by the length of the macromolecule.

1965 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) i. i. 53 (caption) The micellar structure of cell walls... Linear macromolecules are grouped to form micellae or crystallites.

2006 A. Peacock & A. Calhoun Polymer Chem. vii. 124 Re-organization of amorphous chains in the interstitial regions between pre-existing crystallites leads to the formation of secondary crystallites.