10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STALACTITIFORM»
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1
A Treatise on the External Characters of Fossils
Coralliform is that particular form of a solid fossil which occurs in elongated
curved shoots, resembling corals, the extremities of which are rounded, but differ
in this respect from the shoot* of stalactitiform as the former are curved in va•
rious ...
Abraham Gottlob Werner, 1805
2
A Treatise on the External Characters of Minerals
Coralliform is applied to solid minerals which occur in elongated curved shoots,
resembling coral, rounded at the extremities ; but differ from stalactitiform, as the
shoots in the former are variously curved, several arising out of each other, and ...
Abraham Gottlob Werner, 1850
3
An elementary treatise on mineralogy: comprising an ...
Stalactitiform. Zralayua signifies a drop, an icicle, which stalactitiform minerals
greatly resemble in shape. Stalagmite. A stalagmite is the deposition afforded by
the water dropping from a stalactite, as on the floor of a cavern. Stellated. When
the ...
William Phillips, Robert Allan, Francis Alger, 1844
4
Rose and Carless's Manual of Surgery for Students and ...
The periosteum covering the ends of the bones is also inflamed and hyperaemic,
in consequence of which spicu- lated or stalactitiform osteophytes are produced (
Fig. 301). The muscle's in the neighbourhood of the joint undergo rapid atrophy ...
William Rose, Albert Carless, 1912
5
Practical geology and mineralogy: with instructions for the ...
Stalactitiform. A mineral resembling an icicle in shape is said to be stalactitiform,
from the Greek <rra\ayfia, a drop, an icicle. Tubuliform, or fistuliform, are terms
applied to minerals occurring in round and hollow columns, single or in groups.
6
An introduction to mineralogy: adapted to the use of schools ...
The fractures do not greatly ditfer: they are both irregular; the specular is shorter
and more pointed than the splintery. Stalactinform, (Stalagnia,) in the Greek,
signifies a drop, an icicle. Stalactitiform minerals greatly resemble icicles in
shape.
7
A Manual of Surgery for Students and Practitioners
As a result of the hyperaemic condition of the end of the bone, especially when
pyogemc infection is superadded, a new formation of subperiosteal osteophytes,
stalactitiform in character, sometimes takes place, but not to such an extent as in
a ...
8
Elements of Mineralogy: Adapted to the Use of Seminaries and ...
Specular and Splintery Fracture belong to imperfectly crystalline minerals. The
fractures do not greatly differ : they are both irregular ; the spicular is shorter and
more pointed than the splintery. Square Prism, see Prism. Stalactitiform.
9
Magazine of Popular Science, and Journal of the Useful Arts
Stalactitiform. — A mineral resembling an icicle in shape is said to be
stalactitiform, from the Greek ara\ayp,a, a drop, an icicle. Tubuliform, or Jistuliform
, are terms applied to minerals occurring in round and hollow columns, single or
in groups; ...
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A Treatise on the External Characters of Fossils. Translated ...
81. o Corallz' arm is that particular form of a solid f0ssil which occurs in elongated
curved shoots, resembling corals, the extremities of which are rounded, but differ
in this respect from the shoots of -stalactitiform as the former are curved in ...
Abraham Gottlob Werner, 1805
