Definitions for tridymite

tridymite trid·y·mite

Spelling: [trid-uh-mahyt]
IPA: /ˈtrɪd əˌmaɪt/

Tridymite is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in tridymite (deiimrtty).

Definitions for tridymite

noun

  1. a polymorph of quartz occurring in the form of small crystals, commonly twinned, in siliceous volcanic rocks.

Origin of tridymite

1865-70; German Tridymit, equivalent to tridym- (Greek trídym(os) triple, equivalent to tri- tri- + (dí)dymos didymous) + -it Examples for tridymite

Spherulites may be regarded as radiate aggregates of such microliths (mostly felspar mixed with quartz or tridymite).

When crystalline grains or blebs of quartz occur, we have a quartz-trachyte; when tridymite is abundant, as in the trachyte of Co.

The crystals, called cristobalite and tridymite, swim in clouds around stars just before they begin to form planets.

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