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单词 pseudomorph
释义 pseudomorph|ps-, ˈsjuːdəʊmɔːf|
[mod. f. Gr. ψευδο- pseudo- + µορϕή form: cf. Gr. ψευδόµορϕ-ος disguising one's form. So in Ger.; F. pseudomorphe.]
A false or deceptive form; spec. in Min. a crystal or other body consisting of one mineral but having the form proper to another, in consequence of having been formed by substitution, or by chemical or physical alteration.
1849Dana Geol. App. ii. (1850) 731 This author..described certain dolomitic pseudomorphs.1876A. H. Green Phys. Geol. (1877) 27 We find crystals of Quartz having the exact shape and angles of a rhombohedron of Carbonate of Lime. Such a crystal is called a Pseudomorph..of Quartz after Carbonate of Lime.Ibid. 185 These crystals [of salt] being afterwards dissolved leave a cast which is filled up by sediment, and so models in sand or mud are formed, known as Pseudomorphs.
attrib.1871Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. XII. 111 Recent analysis of Pseudomorph Corundums.
So pseudoˈmorphic a., pertaining to, or of the nature of, a pseudomorph; hence pseudoˈmorphically adv.; pseudoˈmorphism, the formation or occurrence of pseudomorphs, or the condition of a pseudomorph (in quot. 1871 with reference to plants); pseudoˈmorphose |-əʊs| a. = pseudomorphic; pseudoˈmorphous a. = pseudomorphic; hence pseudoˈmorphously adv. [Cf. mod.F. pseudomorphique, -morphisme, -morphose, -morphoser]. Also pseudoˈmorphose |-əʊz| v. trans., to convert into a pseudomorph; pseudomorˈphosis (pl. -ˈoses), conversion into a pseudomorph; pseudoˈmorphosing vbl. n. Also ˈpseudomorph v. trans. = pseudomorphose v.; ˈpseudomorphed ppl. a., ˈpseudomorphing,
1923Trans. R. Soc. Edin. LIII. 371 Olivine, *pseudomorphed by brownish-green serpentine, is quite common.1960Jrnl. Petrology I. 211 In the aureole of the Glen Doll diorite the rocks of high oxidation ratio..have been reduced, hematite being pseudomorphed by magnetite.1975Nature 17 Jan. 183/2 The large amount of pseudomorphed olivine..suggests that the older dykes were very basic olivine basalts.
1804Edin. Rev. III. 299 The *pseudomorphique crystals of quartz.1894Thinker Mag. V. 342 Phenomena like the devitrification of natural glasses oscillate from paramorphic to pseudomorphic.
1931Econ. Geol. XXVI. 595 Features..preserved *pseudomorphically.1971Canad. Jrnl. Earth Sci. VIII. 634/1 Some of the large embayed chromites are pseudomorphically replaced and rimmed by a..garnetiferous aggregate.
1959Trans. R. Soc. Edin. LXIII. 554 The schists exhibit distinct retrogressive characteristics, notably in the common *pseudomorphing of once-idiomorphic garnet by chlorite-free assemblages.
1849Dana Geol. App. ii. (1850) 731 An article on *pseudomorphism.1871Jrnl. Bot. IX. 253 The term ‘Pseudomorphism’ suggested as a convenient substitute for those cases where a plant abandoned the facies of the Natural family to which it belonged, and assumed that of another.
a1822E. D. Clarke Cadmium 7 Stalactites..had coated over the crystals of other bodies, and destroyed them; appearing in hollow *pseudomorphose forms.
1888Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. Aug. 452 A crystal of augite..moulded by hornblende and partially *pseudomorphosed.
1875Dawson Dawn of Life iii. 45 Most strange and incredible *pseudomorphoses of mineral substances.
1876F. Zirkel Microsc. Petrogr. vi. 114 The alteration did not happen in a proper *pseudomorphosing manner, since the contours of the hornblende are..no longer recognizable.
1816W. Phillips Introd. Min. (1819) p. xcii, Minerals exhibiting impressions of the forms peculiar to the crystals of other substances are said to be *pseudomorphous.1851Woodward Mollusca 40 Fossil shells are often pseudomorphous,—or mere casts..of cavities once occupied by shells.
1943Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CCXLIII. a. 539 The early soft mineral, franckeite, was found strongly replaced, *pseudomorphously, by minerals of higher-temperature significance, such as pyrrhotite.1962W. A. Deer et al. Rock-forming Minerals V. 50 A mineral occurring pseudomorphously after loparite..has been named metaloparite.
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