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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crystallization \Crys`tal*li*za"tion\ (kr[i^]s`tal*l[i^]*z[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. cristallization.]
(Chem. & Min.) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized; the formation of crystals.
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The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of crystallization are the several classes to which the forms are mathematically referable. They are most simply described according to the relative lengths and inclinations of certain assumed lines called axes; but the real distinction is the degree of symmetry characterizing them.
The Isometric system, or The Monometric system has the axes all equal, as in the cube, octahedron, etc.
The Tetragonal system, or The Dimetric system has a varying vertical axis, while the lateral are equal, as in the right square prism.
The Orthorhombic system, or The Trimetric system has the three axes unequal, as in the rectangular and rhombic prism. In this system, the lateral axes are called, respectively, macrodiagonal and brachydiagonal. -- The preceding are erect forms, the axes intersecting at right angles. The following are oblique.
The Monoclinic system, having one of the intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhombic prism. In this system, the lateral axes are called respectively, clinodiagonal and orthodiagonal.
The Triclinic system, having all the three intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhomboidal prism. There is also:
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The Hexagonal system (one division of which is called Rhombohedral), in which there are three equal lateral axes, and a vertical axis of variable length, as in the hexagonal prism and the rhombohedron.
Note: The Diclinic system, sometimes recognized, with two oblique intersections, is only a variety of the Triclinic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, noun of action from crystallize + -ation. Figurative use is attested from 1842.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context uncountable English) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2 (context countable English) The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. 3 (context uncountable physics chemistry English) The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase 4 (context countable English) The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise. n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2 (context countable English) The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. 3 (context uncountable physics chemistry English) The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase 4 (context countable English) The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.
WordNet
n. the formation of crystals [syn: crystallisation, crystallizing]
a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces [syn: crystal]
a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation
Wikipedia
Crystallization is the (natural or artificial) process of formation of solid crystals.
Protein Crystallization is the technique of generating crystals of biological molecules, often for X-Ray Crystallography.Crystallization or similar may also refer to:
- Crystallize (Kylie Minogue song)
- Crystallize (Lindsey Stirling song)
- Crystallized (song), a song by Young the Giant
- Crystalised, song by The xx
- Crystallization (love), the "falling in love" process (Stendhal)
Crystallization is the (natural or artificial) process where a solid forms where the atoms or molecules are highly organized in a structure known as a crystal. Some of the ways which crystals form are through precipitating from a solution, melt or more rarely deposited directly from a gas. Crystallization is also a chemical solid–liquid separation technique, in which mass transfer of a solute from the liquid solution to a pure solid crystalline phase occurs. In chemical engineering crystallization occurs in a crystallizer. Crystallization is therefore related to precipitation, although the result is not amorphous or disordered, but a crystal.
Crystallization is a concept, developed in 1822 by the French writer Stendhal, which describes the process, or mental metamorphosis, in which unattractive characteristics of a new love are transformed into perceptual diamonds of shimmering beauty; according to a quotation by Stendhal: What I call 'crystallization' is the operation of the mind that draws from all that presents itself the discovery that the loved object has some new perfections.
Usage examples of "crystallization".
Just as in the latter we observe levity taking hold of ponderable matter and moving it in a direction opposite to the pull of gravity, so in crystallization we see imponderable matter passing over from levity into gravity.
It is rhombohedral in crystallization and isomorphous with calcite and chalybite.
The two latter are tetragonal in crystallization, whilst brookite is orthorhombic.
The raw product which was obtained dry in a vacuum was dissolved in a mixture of benzol and Methanol and was brought to crystallization through an addition in portions of Petrol-ether.
Stas, in his stoichiometric researches, prepared chemically pure bromine from potassium bromide, by converting it into the bromate which was purified by repeated crystallization.
With the crystallization of church order improvisation in prayer largely gave place to set forms, and collections of prayers were made which later developed into Sacramentaries and Orationals.
From this structureless fluid the cells were supposed to arise by a process akin to crystallization.
Nay, it should be realized by every judicious promoter of the Faith that at such an early stage in the evolution and crystallization of the Cause such discriminating and precautionary measures are inevitable and even necessary if the nascent institutions of the Faith are to emerge triumphant and unimpaired from the present welter of confused and often conflicting interests with which they are surrounded.
I was sick of life before my crystallization, and even Vist in his wisdom could not provide more than a temporary respite from weariness.
Every juridical system is in some way a crystallization of a specific set of values, because ethics is part of the materiality of every juridical foundation, but Empire-and in particular the Roman tradition of imperial right-is peculiar in that it pushes the coincidence and universality of the ethical and the juridical to the extreme: in Empire there is peace, in Empire there is the guarantee of justice for all peoples.
The lack of foraminifera fossils and the crystallization patterns seem to confirm this.
At the cellular level the morphogenetic field orders the crystallization of microtubules and other processes which are necessary for the coordination of cell division.
This constant broadening of technical and emotional contrast must have taken Ressler years to train for: each variation is so arranged to throw off the spell of the previous, and before the ear has time enough to savor any crystallization of mood, a reaction at once pitches the listener into new tempi, meters, and melodic figures probing radically opposing kernels of feeling, pulling open the full complexity of the piece, the inexhaustible variety extracted from the modest four-by-four-by-four sarabande.
The memory of that moment last year, when his body pattern flowed in currents and magnetic fields through hers, when the two patterns heterodyned and deep within her the first crystallization took place, glowed in him.
In five, it was unanticipated complexities in the mechanics of submolecular crystallization.