Crystalloclast

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who breaks crystals for the purpose of studying them. rare
  2. 2
    A clast that consists primarily of crystalized mineral.

    "Virtually all crystalloclasts are strongly fractured, fused, and fragmented, and are often partly dissolved in the ground-mass..."

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"Virtually all crystalloclasts are strongly fractured, fused, and fragmented, and are often partly dissolved in the ground-mass..."

Etymology

From crystallo- + -clast.

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