crystalline
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- adjective
- /ˈkrɪstəˌlaɪn/
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cristalino
- When particles of light strike the nacre, they bounce around its multi layered crystalline structure in a cascade of shifting rainbows.
- crystalline structure
- crystalline silicon
- crystalline solid
Everything is getting covered, transformed into crystalline structures.
- Everything is getting covered, transformed into crystalline structures.
- In a Japanese sword or a fine kitchen knife, you're changing the internal crystalline structure to achieve a more brittle knife, which also holds an edge better.
- You know, it's like a, you know, crystalline cellulose as a as a filler.
- And they live in this amazing crystalline interdimensional city.
- Ice is more crystalline structure is more.
- The rock candy is sweet but hard, slipping on a crystalline walk.
- So mounds of salt everywhere and salts of white crystal, crystalline form.
- So the the mineral content of the endocrine gland, crystalline mineral content is what's linked to these chakras.
Examples
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Isn't snow frozen water vapor that falls to the earth in soft, white crystalline flakes?
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Put it in a pan and let the water evaporate in the sun and what you're left with is this crystalline substance.
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But then you look at the model, the crystalline model, and what do you find?
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What you want to do is get a certain crystalline structure.
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In fact, it's a crystalline structure the molecules have.
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Everything is getting covered, transformed into crystalline structures.
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Sand, ice, sugar, chocolate, ceramics, metals, DNA, and even some liquids have crystalline structures.
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Boron trisulfide, B2S3, is a white crystalline compound at standard temperature and pressure.
Academic text (1993) -
The Zurich team fabricated its arrays of cantilevers in batches from crystalline silicon, using surface micromachining techniques.
Academic text (2002) -
Sand, ice, and sugar are examples of materials that have a crystalline structure.
Synonyms
A thing that has a regular repeating shape like salt or diamond
Having the shape or structure of crystals
Very clear and bright like a piece of glass
Made of many small crystals rather than a single crystal
Made of many small grains of solid material, often used in solar panels
Made of tiny crystals you can only see with a microscope
Having very small crystals in the rock that are hard to see
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A clear curved part behind the colored part of the eye that focuses light onto the back of the eye
How Ordered
- Specialized
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- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crystalline comes from crystal, which are solid materials made of many small, regular parts. So crystalline means 'made of crystals' or having the regular, shining shape of crystals, as in some minerals or salt.