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What is an intergrowth?

What is an intergrowth? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A growing together and through each other of two crystals.
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The breccias are composed of fragments of altered, angular tuff fragments cemented with an intergrowth of tourmaline and quartz.
Wood cell development occurs initially with the creation of a porous cellulose-hemicellulose structure followed by an intergrowth of lignin within this structure.
Graphic granite is a regular intergrowth of quartz and feldspar that gives an angular appearance suggestive of cuneiform writing.
Polished sections of most specimens of allemontite show an intergrowth of allemontite with either pure arsenic in a vein occurrence or with nearly pure antimony in a pegmatite occurrence.
Face-to-face layer stacking and low angle intergrowth of tactoids are observable.
A regular or twin intergrowth between two hemihedral crystals frequently takes place and results in the production of a holohedral form.

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