crystallization
IPA: krˈɪstʌɫaɪzeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
- The body formed by crystallizing.
- The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase
- The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.
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Examples of "crystallization" in Sentences
- Stendhal has written of what he calls the crystallization of a loving relationship.
- The bond-forming process of crystallization is exothermic meaning that it releases heat energy.
- For the chemist crystallization is the final goal in the preparation of a substance in pure form.
- I call crystallization that process of mind which discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
- What our easily-distracted squadron of hockey 'experts' has seen in parsing every defensive shift of the Habs' last half-dozen games can only be described as a crystallization - this star was born long ago, but only now has it truly started shining brightly.
- The team has determined that temperature can play a decisive role in determining which of two competing processes-called crystallization and dewetting-will "take the lead" when a semicrystalline polymer film hardens, thereby granting qualitatively different properties to the finished film.
- Thus it is said, that life is nothing but the accretion of similar substances, or the addition of like unto like; and as this occurs in crystallization, which is confessedly a phenomenon of inorganic matter, therefore there is no fundamental difference between the properties of living and dead substances.
- The jaundice is frequently caused by the insipidity of the bile, which does not stimulate the gall-bladder and bile-ducts into their due action; hence it stagnates in the gall-bladder, and produces a kind of crystallization, which is too large to pass into the intestines, blocks up the bile-duct, and occasions a long and painful disease.
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