English edit

Etymology edit

micro- +‎ crystallite

Noun edit

microcrystallite (plural microcrystallites)

  1. A microscopic crystallite.
    • 1966, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in .in Ionized Gases:
      This was revealed only in the experiments of ion bombardment of single crystals, because a polycrystalline material, even though its microcrystallites have a regular structure, in fact behaves like a nonarranged, random system.