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Pearlite

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pearl sparnoun	A crystallized variety of dolomite, having a pearly lustre.
perlialitenoun	(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal pearl white mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and thallium.
pearl sinternoun	fiorite
ausferritenoun	A special type of microstructure that occurs when ductile iron is austempered, consisting of acicular ferrite in carbon-enriched austenite.
bainitenoun	(metallurgy) A microstructure of steel consisting of needle-like particles of cementite embedded in a ferrite matrix.
pearlstonenoun	(mineralogy) perlite
pearlenoun	Obsolete spelling of pearl. [(literally) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.]
pearlnoun	(literally) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
ferrophosphorusnoun	A ferroalloy of iron and phosphorus.
spheroiditenoun	A soft, ductile form of carbon steel producing by heating under certain conditions, and having a structure of rods or spheres of cementite within the primary structure.
austenitenoun	A solid solution of carbon or ferric carbide in iron that exists in steel at high temperatures.
perryitenoun	(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal gray white mineral containing iron, nickel, phosphorus, and silicon.
purlenoun	Obsolete form of purl. [A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.]
pearl greynoun	A pale grey colour, tinted with blue, like that of some pearls.
cave pearlnoun	A kind of speleothem, formed as calcite crystallizes on a nucleus such as a grain of sand, in much the same way that a biological pearl forms within a mollusc.
phosphoferritenoun	(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.
phosphorus steelnoun	A steel containing more phosphorus than carbon.
pearl-ashnoun	A gray-white powder, having chemical properties of quicklime, made by heating mollusk shells to a temperature sufficient to calcine the material.
pearl whitenoun	Basic bismuth nitrate, or bismuth subchloride; used chiefly as a cosmetic.
pearly	Resembling or characteristic of a pearl; nacreous.