needle-shaped
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People who lived and worked in Libby breathed in the microscopic needle-shaped asbestos fibers that can cause the lung cancer mesothelioma or lung scarring called asbestosis, the lawsuit argues.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024
So Tarduno went searching for rocks of the right age containing tiny, needle-shaped crystals of the mineral titanomagnetite, which record the magnetic field’s strength at the time of their crystallization.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022
These are evergreen coniferous trees like pines, spruce, and fir, which retain their needle-shaped leaves year-round.
From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018
In his research, Schwarcz says, he has never seen anything suggesting bone minerals are structured into curved, needle-shaped crystals.
From Scientific American • May 3, 2018
A simple mineral, white, and needle-shaped, one of the Zeolite family, frequently met with in the Trap-rocks.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
