microcline

microcline
(entrée créée par le supplément)
(mi-kro-kli-n') adj.
Terme de cristallographie. Qui a de petites inclinaisons.
   Sur le feldspath microcline, CH. STE-CLAIRE DEVILLE Acad. des sc. Comptes rend. t. LXXXII, p. 1015.
   Du grec, petit, et, incliner.

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