Acicular

Description

Acicular crystals have a needle-like shape. Some metallic alloys have microstructures with acicular components. One example is ferrite in iron cast iron.

Synonyms and Related Terms

nadelfrmig (Deut.)

Authority

• Walter C. McCrone, John Gustave Delly, Walter C. McCrone, John Gustave Delly, The Particle Atlas, W. McCrone Associates, Chicago, IV, 1972

• Random House, Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998