crystalline
IPA: krˈɪstʌɫaɪn
noun
- (obsolete) Any crystalline substance.
- (obsolete) aniline
adjective
- Of, relating to, or composed of crystals.
- (chemistry) Having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure.
- Resembling crystal in being clear and transparent.
- Pure.
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Examples of "crystalline" in Sentences
- The base is crystalline and metamorphic rock.
- The compound is polymeric in the crystalline form.
- The crystalline mass and the solution are separated.
- The summit is and is composed of crystalline limestone.
- Hang it out on the line in crystalline clean mountain air.
- The data can be used to determine the crystalline structure.
- Its floor is covered in crystalline, perfectly faceted blocks.
- The first crystalline chromosilicate is a precursor of the second.
- Cataracts are treated via the surgical removal of the crystalline lens.
- A cataract is an opacity that develops in the crystalline lens of the eye.
- The proportion of the different crystalline states is temperature dependent.
- The amorphous became crystalline, the opaque transparent, the static kinetic.
- The chains may be entangled like spaghetti (as above) or be ordered in crystalline formations.
- Now the whole Livewire in crystalline Element Lad body being hunted down as “The Progenitor” thing keeps my seatbelt on.
- One medical researcher who accidentally inhaled some of it in crystalline form said “It is not toxic, but if you inhale some of it, you will wish you were dead.”
- In its citation, the Swedish academy said the duo achieved their result "at a time when many believed it was impossible for such thin crystalline materials to be stable."
- The geometric ordering of atoms in crystalline solids as well as the different kinds of magnetic order, are examples of general ordering phenomena in nature when systems find an energetically favorable arrangement by choosing a certain state of symmetry.