Epitaxy

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growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Unknown—authoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Epitaxies
possessive: Epitaxy's
pluralpossessive: Epitaxies'

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