DISDIACLASTIC CRYSTAL, in natural history, a name given, by Bartholine and some others, to the pellucid fossile substance more usually called from the place whence it was first brought, Island crystal; tho' properly it is no crystal at all, but a fine pellucid spar, called by Dr Hill, from its shape, parallelopipedum. See ISLAND Crystal.
DISDIACLASTIC CRYSTAL
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