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platy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | platypoecilus maculatus |
| Type of | live-bearer, poeciliid, poeciliid fish, topminnow |
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I bought two tropical fish, a bumble-bee platy and an algae-eating common pleco.
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The mica group represents 37 phyllosilicate minerals that have a layered or platy texture.
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The platy texture acts as an antiblocking, antisticking agent.
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The growth of platy minerals, typically of the mica group, is usually a result of prograde metamorphic reactions during deformation.
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It is a gray-green shale that contains beds of platy limestone conglomerate along with fossils of trilobites and brachiopods.
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The coating is not absorbed by freshly manufactured roofing because mica's platy structure is unaffected by the acid in asphalt or by weather conditions.
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This causes the platy or elongated crystals of minerals, such as mica and chlorite, to become rotated such that their long axes are perpendicular to the orientation of shortening.
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These sheets are chemically inert, dielectric, elastic, flexible, hydrophilic, insulating, lightweight, platy, reflective, refractive, resilient, and range in opacity from transparent to opaque.
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- Small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish
- Platy is a common name for two related species of freshwater fish in the genus Xiphophorus. Both species are livebearers, similar to other fish of the family Poeciliidae, such as the guppy and molly. Platies are native to the east coast of Central America and southern Mexico.
- A tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (also including the swordtails.); Resembling plates; Of a field semy of plates; Composed of thin plate-like pieces of igneous rock
- Flattened and thin body (crystal or skeletal grain), like plates
- A soil structure. Soil particles are arranged into shapes that resemble flat plates.
- Occurring in very thin plates, like hematite
- A mineral habit with flat, thin crystals.
