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Cryptocrystalline vs Pinite - What's the difference?

cryptocrystalline | pinite |

As nouns the difference between cryptocrystalline and pinite

is that cryptocrystalline is (petrology) a rock of this kind while pinite is any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the pine family or pinite can be (mineralogy) a compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color it is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, such as iolite.

As an adjective cryptocrystalline

is (petrology) whose crystalline nature only becomes apparent at high levels of magnification.

cryptocrystalline

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (petrology) Whose crystalline nature only becomes apparent at high levels of magnification.

    • Noun

  • (petrology) A rock of this kind.

    • pinite

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the pine family.
  • (chemistry) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (, sugar pine), isomeric with quercite.

    • Etymology 2

    , after a mine in Saxony.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (mineralogy) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, such as iolite.
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