crystalline
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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
Vocabulary lists containing crystalline
Earth Science - Middle School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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Rocks and Minerals - Introductory
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