What's the difference between martite and pseudomorph?

Martite


Definition:

  • (n.) Iron sesquioxide in isometric form, probably a pseudomorph after magnetite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 2 conclusions concerning fertility are more likely than the average married couple to have had a pre-maritally conceived child, and 2) that couples who divorce relatively quickly tend on average to have larger family sizes, even if children who were pre-martitally conceived are exluded.

Pseudomorph


Definition:

  • (n.) An irregular or deceptive form.
  • (n.) A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) SEM examination revealed structures similar to human stones such as bipyramidal weddellite, pseudomorphs from whewellite to weddellite, apatite deposits in cystine stones and characteristic mono-ammonium-urate needles.
  • (2) Pseudomorphous foliated texture and cross-cutting relationships indicate replacement of talc by sepiolite.
  • (3) Mature ependymal cells were either: columnar, pseudocolumnar, cuboidal, squamous, or pseudomorphic; had cilia and villi on only one surface of the cell and shared tight junctions when contiguous.
  • (4) The radiographic findings of the patients with poorer prognosis tended to show three patterns of tumor shadows: more than 5 cm in diameter, dense with spicular radiation, ill-marginated, faint and pseudomorphic with pleural indentation.

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