microlite
microlite An extremely small crystal, usually found embedded in a glassy groundmass (see GLASS) and resolvable only by using high power magnification on a petrological microscope (see POLARIZING MICROSCOPE). Such crystals represent the frozen initial stages of crystal nucleation and growth, and are usually preserved in rapidly chilled lavas.
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