frills

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The ammonium nitrate was in the form of tiny white beads called prills that look like the filling of a bean bag.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 3, 2013

The prills look like a pile of granulated soap particles and feel rather like raw tapioca.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there are other ores, in lump showing no visible gold, which contain the gold in all possible degrees of fineness, from say prills of a milligram or so down to a most impalpable powder.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

The weights of the sifted portion and of the "metallics," or prills, are taken; the sum of these weights gives that of the whole of the sample taken.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

Several standard prills of the same size should be made at the same time, and their mean diameter calculated.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius