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Definition of Perlitic
1. a. Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.
Definition of Perlitic
1. Adjective. (minerology) Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perlitic
1. perlite [adj] - See also: perlite
Medical Definition of Perlitic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Perlitic
Literary usage of Perlitic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"The latter shows perlitic structure in great perfection. In addition, however,
the grains of quartz exhibit a series of cracks, which are distinctly ..."
2. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1894)
"Harker and Marr, of his statement that in a perlitic felsite from Long Sleddale
valley, Westmoreland, spherulitic devitrification followed the development ..."
3. The Silurian Rocks of Britain by Benjamin Nieve Peach, John Horne, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1899)
"Under crossed nicols, they are cryptocrystalline with frequent traces of very
minute microlites. The perlitic structure is very perfectly developed. ..."
4. The Rocks of Cape Colville Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand by William Johnson Sollas, Alexander McKay (1906)
"The specimen, which is a light-grey fine-grained pumiceous breccia, was collected
principally on account of a remarkable inclusion of black perlitic glass, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In polarized light the perlitic glass is usually quite isotropic, but sometimes
the internal part of some of the spheres has a slight double refraction ..."
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