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crystal

[kris-tl] / ˈkrɪs tl /


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The single crystal is essential to ensure each blade's performance.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

A single crystal or grain of metal alloy forms during this process of gradual, delicate solidification.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

By guiding crystal growth, the new gel can restore both the microscopic architecture and the physical properties of healthy enamel.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

See, what happened was that his crystal ball was misfiring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

She pushed the platform to the ceiling and into a pathway that snaked its way upward into a round opening in one of the crystal spires.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Fifoot says that, at the beginning of the cooling process, this spiral "chokes" the flow of solidifying crystals so that just one takes over.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Sometimes a blade doesn't cool quite as planned, for example two crystals form within it instead of just one, and the metal alloy must be reprocessed so that the manufacturer may re-use the material.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

This organization is especially important because enamel gets its exceptional hardness and durability from the precise arrangement of its mineral crystals.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Essentially, it means that new mineral crystals grow in alignment with the existing enamel, allowing the newly formed material to become structurally integrated with the original tooth surface.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Ivan’s mom smelled like the river after a thunderstorm, and a handful of salt crystals, and some kind of flower that Anya couldn’t place, and an ice-cold winter night.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

Then two drops of crystalled dew From the hyacinth’s deep hue, Brought she for thine eyes of blue; And lest they should miss the sun, Bade thy soul to shine thereon.

From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

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

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

The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and especially were its jowls, muzzle, and eyelashes whitened by its crystalled breath. 

From Lost Face by Jack London


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