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[Eng. grant; -able.] spotted. It has no fo ils, but at times contains various minerals, such as quartz, garnet, mica, hornblende, talc, actinolite, asbestos, sulphuret of lead and of zinc, . Of old it was called also primitive limestone, but it is now known that it may be of any age. It is often called crystalline limestone. Probably it is in all cases indirectly of animal origin. [LIMESTONE.] A variety of it is called statuary-marble (q. v.). ( Phillips , & c .) grăn-u-lar-lý, adv . [ Eng.granular ; -ly .] In a granular manner or form. IMG:content-0702.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To form into granules or small ma es. "Tin and lead may be quickly and better granulated by the mechanical way."- Boyle : Works, iii. 464. 2. To raise granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface. "It would be too much to a ert that the skin of the dog-fish was made rough and granulated on purpose for the polishing of wood."-Paley: Nat. Theol., ch. v. B. In trans.: To be formed into granules or small 1. That may or can be granted or conveyed by ma es; to become granulated. IMG:content-0703.png:[blocks in formation] granulite granulated-steel, s. Metall.: Melted pig-iron is scattered by a wheel into a cistern of water, and thus reduced to frag ments. These are imbedded in powdered hematite or sparry iron ore, and subjected to furnace heat. The exterior of the fragments become decarbonized and thus reduced to the condition of malleable iron. The metal is made homogeneous by melting, and steel is produced. grăn-u-lā-tion, s. [Fr.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of forming into granules or grains. 2. The state or proce of becoming granular. II. Technically: 1. Chem .: Zinc and tin are granulated by pouring the melted metal into cold water; the metal is thus obtained in small fragments. Granulated zinc is used for preparing hydrogen gas, and granulated tin along with concentrated hydrochloric acid is used to reduce nitro compounds to amido compounds. "Granulation is the proce by which metals are reduced to minute grains. It is effected by pouring them in a melted state, through an iron cullender pierced with small holes, into a body of water, or directly upon a bundle of twigs immersed in water, In this way copper is granulated into bean shot, and silver alloys are granulated preparatory to refining."-Ure: Cyclopædia. IMG:content-0704.png:[blocks in formation] 4. Astron.: [(1), (2).] B. As adj .: Consisting of granules. There is a granule-layer of the cerebellum. It consists of granule-like corpuscles lying in dense groups near the medullary center. ( Quain .) (1) Granules of Huggins : Astron.: Groups of the granules described under ( 2). (2) Granules of Langley: Astron.: Minute bodies scattered over the whole surface of the sun, and a umed to be the immediate source of solar light and heat. granule-cells, s. pl. Anatomy: 1. Gen.: Cells containing globules of fat or oil existing in animal solids or liquids. 2. Spec .: Such cells when of new formation in inflammation, cancer, . ( Griffith & Henfrey.) grăn-u-lif-er-oŭs, a . [Eng. granule; Lat. fero =to bear, to produce, and Eng. adj. suff. -ous .] Bearing grains; full of grains.