What is "spherule"

Usage examples of "spherule".

Spinning spherule like a hundred-mile-long bead on a million-mile-long necklace.

The spherule of force which is the primitive basis of a cell spends itself in the discharge of its work.

But the written truth of books, not transient but permanent, plainly offers itself to be observed, and by means of the pervious spherules of the eyes, passing through the vestibule of perception and the courts of imagination, enters the chamber of intellect, taking its place in the couch of memory, where it engenders the eternal truth of the mind.

Hamid-Jones could see that the quicksilver spherules were indeed moving, oozing along the snow about as fast as the minute hand on an analog watch.

Bram twisted around in his seat to see the human compound, a pebbled polygon of dim chalky spherules and knobs interspersed with the queer new boxy shapes of the wood and stone buildings that the Reconstructionist architects, Arthe among them, were starting to put up.

Spinning spherules like beads on a five-hundred-sixty-three-million-mile-long necklace.

Plateau has proved to be the natural tendency of the liquid cylinder to resolve itself into spherules, and virtually decomposed the vein.

Careful examination of the site disclosed silicate and magnetite dispersion matter and spherules of an intermediate type attributable to the Tunguska object.

Later discovery of unusual iridium-enriched spherules in peat bogs of the Bublik Swamp, close to the explosion area, compared against Antarctic snow-ice core samples using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analyses, led to the conclusion that the object that exploded over Tunguska had a mass of eighty thousand tons.

The top of the scalp was removed, revealing the mass of orange spherules which comprised the Thord brain.

Hamid-Jones could see that the quicksilver spherules were indeed moving, oozing along the snow about as fast as the minute hand on an analog watch.