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crystal

[kris-tl] / ˈkrɪs tl /


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To make this possible, the researchers developed a system built around a special crystal containing thorium atoms, manufactured at TU Wien.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

“When your naming is crystal clear, people can tell at a glance what you have to offer,” Barrett said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“We felt like legally it was crystal clear, and we had authority. So we called the trusted contact, her adult daughter. She responded immediately, and said, ‘I’m so glad to hear from you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

It can be a liquid or a crystal form too.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I don’t have a crystal ball. I don’t know how it’s all gonna work out.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Gravity then pulls those crystals to the ground.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

This approach to weather modification, now more than 80-years-old, involves using planes and drones to disperse compounds such as silver iodide into clouds to form ice crystals.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Those changes can be detected with these imaging techniques, allowing researchers to verify that the crystals recorded the collision itself.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

By dating zircon crystals taken from granite altered by the impact, the team determined that the meteorite struck about 370 million years ago during the Late Devonian.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Sound seems to ring and the very air seems to be filled with diamonds when ice crystals form.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

A shining god raised me, and bade my fears Be flown, and I beheld the glorious throne Of crystaled light; with rays by man unknown.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

“The house was crystalled out,” she told Vogue, but she didn’t want visitors to think she was a “crystal person”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2019

She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon paneled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.

From Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Now I ascended, or again descended the dropping and crystalled rocks; now crept into openings, which suddenly terminated, and turning again, anxiously listened to the sound of the rippling water as my only guide.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon panelled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.

From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Her eyes, her color, her smiles were radiance itself; her mobile lips curved over teeth as white and gleaming as crystalled snow.

From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by Charles King


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