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Definition of: crystallite
(kris′tə·līt) noun Mineral.
One of certain minute, spherical, rod-shaped or hairlike bodies without the true properties of a crystal, but resulting from a crystallizing tendency, observable in thin sections of igneous rock and in slags. [<L crystallum clear ice, crystal + -ITE1]
—crys·tal·lit·ic (kris′tə·lit′ik) adjective
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