splintery fracture

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• splintery fracture — noun (mineralogy) The property of breaking with a surface like broken wood • • • Main Entry: ↑splint …   Useful english dictionary

• Splintery — Splin ter*y (spl[i^]n t[ e]r*[y^]), a. Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Fracture (mineralogy) — This article is about the terminology used to describe fracture surfaces. For fractures in rocks and minerals per se, see Fracture (geology) In the field of mineralogy, fracture is a term used to describe the shape and texture of the surface… …   Wikipedia

• splintery — [splin′tərē] adj. 1. easily splintered 2. of or like a splinter 3. resulting in splinters, as a fracture 4. full of splinters; splintered * * * See splinter. * * * …   Universalium

• splintery — [splin′tərē] adj. 1. easily splintered 2. of or like a splinter 3. resulting in splinters, as a fracture 4. full of splinters; splintered …   English World dictionary

• fracture — fracturable, adj. fractural, adj. fracturer, n. /frak cheuhr/, n., v., fractured, fracturing. n. 1. the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Cf. comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture,… …   Universalium

• Phosphate minerals — ▪ Table Phosphate minerals name colour lustre Mohs hardness specific gravity amblygonite white to creamy white; slightly tinted vitreous to greasy 5½–6 3.0–3.1 apatite carbonate apatite variable, greens predominating vitreous 5 2.9–3.2… …   Universalium

• nephrite — /nef ruyt/, n. Mineral. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade. [1785 95; < G Nephrit. See NEPHR , ITE1] * * * Gem quality, usually green silicate mineral in the tremolite actinolite… …   Universalium

• Colimaite — General Category Sulfide mineral Chemical formula K3VS4 Strunz classification 02.FB.25 …   Wikipedia

• Seatearth — is a British coal mining term, which is used in the geological literature. As noted by Jackson (1997), a seatearth is the layer of sedimentary rock underlying a coal seam. Seatearths have also been called seat earth , seat rock , or seat stone in …   Wikipedia

• Ganister — As defined in Jackson (1997), a ganister is hard, fine grained quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite, used in the manufacture of silica brick typically used to line furnaces. Ganisters are cemented with secondary silica and typically have a… …   Wikipedia