CRYSTALLITE

Crystallite

Crystallites are small, often microscopic crystals that, held together through highly defective boundaries, constitute a polycrystalline solid. Metallurgists often refer to crystallites as grains.

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crystallite

Noun

  1. A small region of a solid that consists of a single crystal; a grain


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