ADJECTIVE
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consisting of fine particles
powdery snow
pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding
powdered cellulose -
dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells
fine-grained rock
close-grained birch
How To Use fine-grained In A Sentence
- Its excellent toughness is due to a fine-grained structure of tough nickel-ferrite devoid of embrittling carbide networks, which are taken into solution during tempering at 570°C to form stable austenite islands.
- A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine-grained granite.
- The fine-grained assemblage is dominated by tabular, low-density elements, such as cycloid scales and fish vertebrae. Archive 2008-04-01
- Modern studies of this kind can take into account many fine-grained features of both the physical and the social environment.
- To make the glyphs, the ancient carvers used chisels, probably of hard, fine-grained quartzite, which they struck with hammers of stone or antler, each blow chipping out one small stone flake.
- The bodies of iron sulfide nodules in the Olentangy Shale are composed of fine-grained pyrite, and their surfaces are frequently covered with tabular crystals of marcasite.
- In cross-section, the deposits consist of unsorted pebbles, cobbles, and boulders in a matrix of fine-grained debris.
- fine-grained rock
- Both samples consist of fine-grained calcite with elongated or equant shapes.
- It occurred as a fine-grained siliceous vein filling and as discrete, clear, tiny crystals in vugs.