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EPITAXY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("epitaxy" is a kind of...):
growing ((electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state)
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