achromatization (akro"matizashon)

The act of achromatizing or depriving of color. Also spelled achromatisation. Aciculacea (a-sik-ū-lā sē-ä), n. pl. [NL., acicular (a-sik'ū-lär), a. [ Acicular Crystals, Stibnite. ing a sharp point like a needle: as, an acicular prism, like those of stibnite; an acicular bill, as that of a humming-bird. Other forms are aciculate, aciculated, aciculiform, and aciculine. The silver salt crystallizes from its aqueous solution in small acicular prisms. E. Frank land, Exper. in Chem., p. 30. Acicular bismuth. See aikinite.