Spherulite
noun, Petrology.
1.
a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
noun
1.
any of several spherical masses of radiating needle-like crystals of one or more minerals occurring in rocks such as obsidian
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