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crystalline

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[ US /ˈkɹɪstəˌɫaɪn/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɪstɐlˌa‍ɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
    lucid air
    a pellucid brook
    transparent crystal
    the cold crystalline water of melted snow
    could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool
    crystal clear skies
  2. distinctly or sharply outlined
    crystalline sharpness of outline
  3. consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals
    granite is crystalline

How To Use crystalline In A Sentence

  • Silica exists in several crystalline forms, in a large number of colloidal forms, and as an amorphous solid.
  • Some makers still bolster these paints with components like formaldehyde, crystalline silica, acetone and ammonia to help preserve the paint or give it other properties, such as spatter-resistance. Painting Without That Smell
  • When aniline is reacted with excess acetic acid under dehydration conditions a white, crystalline material is formed, acetanilide.
  • Stress-strain results are reported for two series of smectic C main chain liquid crystalline elastomers IMechanica - Comments
  • The monster crystals, over six meters long, are made of selenite, a crystalline form of the mineral gypsum (the number one ingredient in blackboard chalk!). Did you know? Chihuahua caves house the world's largest crystals
  • For example, microcrystalline pyrite is ubiquitous on the inner surface of cell walls, within lignified cell walls and in the middle lamella.
  • Crystalline hyenas ran rampant through the bailey and feasted on the fallen. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • Her blood has diluted and cooled itself to a crystalline, life-giving wine. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • Amorphous, polycrystalline, or epitaxial films can be made with thicknesses from 10 nanometers to hundreds of nanometers or thicker.
  • The textures of thunder eggs can vary from distinctly radiating fibrous textures to cryptocrystalline aggregates that preserve the structure of the original rhyolite.
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