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crystallization

Word definitions for crystallization in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in 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 ...

WordNet Word definitions in 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 ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, noun of action from crystallize + -ation . Figurative use is attested from 1842.

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.