platy in English

prefix
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broad; flat.
platypus

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1. Background: Although Antigorite is generally described as platy, its fibrous (asbestiform) variant is present widespread in serpentinite rocks

2. Baryte usually forms tabular crystals and less often prismatic crystals, or platy, grainy, or coxcomb shaped aggregates

3. Oxidation of sulphide to sulphate drives precipitation of stellate and platy barite microcrystals in the proximal flow paths.

4. This deformation produces a characteristic platy foliation, a strong elongation lineation, and a proto-mylonitic microstructure.

5. The lilypads are flat, accretionary structures rooted to the substrate that are composed mostly of platy calcite crystals.

6. Allothigenic clay minerals, particularly of the platy type (kaolinite, hy- dromica, chlorite, montmorillonite, vermiculite), are characterized by isometrical Fig.5. Allothigenic hydromica, Lower Devonian, Volga-Ural region

7. Antigorite and showed that the polymorph lizardite, which has a platy structure, could have been easily mis­ taken, in some of the samples, for Antigorite

8. Aventurine is a form of quartz, characterized by its translucency and the presence of platy mineral inclusions that give a shimmering or glistening effect termed aventurescence

9. Antigorite Formula Mg 3 Si 2 O 5 (OH) 4 Crystal System Monoclinic Crystal Habit Platy, Massive, Scaly Cleavage Good, None, None Luster Vitreous - Greasy Color green, gray, bluish gray, brown, black Streak greenish white Class Monoclinic - Domatic Fracture Brittle Hardness 3.5-4

10. … or hypidiomorphic (partly faced), or Anhedral or allotriomorphic (no external crystal faces). Quite apart from the presence or absence of crystal faces, the shape, or habit, of individual mineral grains is described by such terms as equant, tabular, platy, elongate, fibrous, rodlike, …

11. Brucite Meaning The meaning of this stone's name relates to it being named after an American mineralogist called Archibald Bruce. It is a quite fibrous mineral that can occur in the massive form, as well as platy and tabular crystals and sometimes as rosettes

12. ‘Apophyllite, whose name roughly means "to leaf apart" in Greek, is a mineral classic.’ ‘A few specimens of Apophyllite were found during the sinking of the Palmer shaft which show rosette-shaped groups and platy single crystals, some of which are half an inch across.’ ‘Apophyllite forms from low temperature hydrothermal fluids.’