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crystalline

[kris-tl-in, -ahyn, -een] / ˈkrɪs tl ɪn, -ˌaɪn, -ˌin /


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Crystalline silica ravages the lungs by scarring them from within.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

Crystalline materials are essential for various technologies that transfer and store information over short periods, such as semiconductors in computers or magnetic storage spaces.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024

Magma reservoirs are probably more like labyrinths than tanks of permanently liquid rock: Crystalline boundaries trap the melt — a buoyant, hot liquid.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Crystalline solids are generally classified according to the nature of the forces that hold its particles together.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

And again, in another place: "Crystalline forces have rearranged whole mountain-masses, producing a beautiful crystalline cleavage, passing alike through all the strata."

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John




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