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crystalline

adjective as in very clear

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If a tree decays and leaves some crystalline material behind.

This is one type of topological defect, an anomaly that occurs in various forms wherever a regular geometry, like the parallel fibers in a hydra or the atomic arrangement in a crystalline solid, has its order seriously disturbed.

One promising class of materials is perovskites, natural and lab-made compounds with a crystalline structure that makes them good semiconductors.

You may just forget that fact, given the way the sugar business has prevented the world from digging deep into its crystalline secrets.

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Specifically, he was developing crystalline materials that allowed ions to easily flow in and out.

Soon enough, I felt my own guts rebelling and stepped out into the crystalline Andean night.

I saw on the Internet a suggestion that you should buy your grad a Swarofski Crystalline USB memory stick.

They slowed, and the rushing sound gave way to a hush that made the crystalline tranquillity complete.

He was crystalline clear about the example set by his father.

Rarely, sodium urate occurs in crystalline form—slender prisms, arranged in fan- or sheaf-like structures (Fig. 32).

It is a white crystalline fusible solid, insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol and in solutions of the alkalies.

It is a crystalline solid less fusible than margaric acid, but closely resembling it in its other properties.

These limestones are hard and possess to a greater or less extent a crystalline texture.

Crystalline epidote, and whitish quartz, apparently from a vein.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crystalline, such as: lucid, sparkling, translucent, clear, crystal clear, and limpid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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