- In petrology,
spherulites (/ˈsfɛrʊlaɪts, sfɪər-/) are small,
rounded bodies that
commonly occur in
vitreous igneous rocks. They are
often visible in specimens...
- In
polymer physics,
spherulites (from Gr****
sphaira = ball and
lithos = stone) are
spherical semicrystalline regions inside non-branched
linear polymers...
- "The
Experimental Identification of
Nixtamalized Maize though Starch Spherulites" (PDF).
Journal of
Archaeological Science. 113: 1. doi:10.1016/j.jas...
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regions called lamellae,
which compose larger spheroidal structures named spherulites.
Polymers can
crystallize upon
cooling from melting,
mechanical stretching...
- than
called tie molecules).
Several lamellae form a superstructure, a
spherulite,
often with a
diameter in the
range of 0.05 to 1 mm. The type and arrangement...
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molten polymer forms a more
crystalline material. This
material has
spherulites containing many
small crystallites when
crystallized from an amorphous...
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spherulites. Ring-banded
spherulites most
notably form when
crystallization is
carried out
between 27 °C and 34 °C
whereas Maltese-cross
spherulites form...
- stones, the
inclusion of small, white,
radially clustered crystals (
spherulites) of the
mineral cristobalite in the
black gl****
produce a
blotchy or...
- hypersphere, mesosphere, pseudosphere, sphere, spherics, spheroid, spherometer,
spherulite, stratosphere, trimetasphere,
troposphere sphing-, sphinct-
strangle Gr****...
- act like
particle composites with
randomly dis****d
crystals known as
spherulites.
However they can also be
engineered to be
anisotropic and act more like...