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When certain minerals occur in aggregates of tiny crystals rather than single large ones, one of the habits they can adopt is named “botryoidal”. The word is derived from the Greek word for grapes, and means tiny crystals occurring in closely interlocking spherical masses or “bubbles” which can sometimes look like bunches of grapes.
