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crystalloclast

crystalloclast noun: a person who breaks crystals for the purpose of studying them.

Noun

crystalloclast (plural crystalloclasts)

  1. (rare) A person who breaks crystals for the purpose of studying them.
  2. A clast that consists primarily of crystalized mineral.
    • Virtually all crystalloclasts are strongly fractured, fused, and fragmented, and are often partly dissolved in the ground-mass...2002, Geochemistry international: Volume 40, Pages 827-1242

Forms of crystalloclast

pluralcrystalloclasts

Origin of crystalloclast

From crystallo- + -clast.

Questions about crystalloclast

What does crystalloclast mean?
Crystalloclast means a person who breaks crystals for the purpose of studying them.
What part of speech is crystalloclast?
Crystalloclast is a noun.
What is the plural of crystalloclast?
The plural of crystalloclast is crystalloclasts.

Words near crystalloclast in the dictionary

  1. crystallizes
  2. crystallizing
  3. crystallo-
  4. crystallochemical
  5. crystallochemistry
  6. crystalloclast
  7. crystalloclasts
  8. crystallogen
  9. crystallogenesis
  10. crystallogenetic
  11. crystallogenic

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