acicular

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These brown-coloured, compact lavas, consist almost entirely of small glimmering scales, or of minute acicular crystals, of feldspar, placed close by the side of each other, and abounding with minute black specks, apparently of hornblende.

From Volcanic Islands by Darwin, Charles

Delicate acicular crystals of considerable length were found long ago in the Pentire Glaze mine near St Minver in Cornwall.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

One fissure was completely lined with exquisite, acicular crystals of sulphur, which perished with a touch.

From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Soon Birdie and myself were a mass of acicular crystals; it was a true easterly fog.

From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

In the same manner I treated the acicular leaves, and portions of the stem separately, both being previously cut up into small pieces, and from both I obtained phenol.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various