crystalline

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When the rotating building blocks rub together strongly enough, the solid can fragment into many smaller spinning crystallites.

From Science Daily • Oct. 21, 2025

These proteins, structurally similar to those found in human hair, were found to transform into silk-like beta crystallites through simple application of stretching forces during formation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023

Such is the level of detail in the images that the scientists were able to observe the ordering of the elongated crystallites in the light-sensitive chrome yellow along the direction of Van Gogh’s brush strokes.

From The Guardian • May 31, 2018

Such rate predictions are based on extrapolations using classical nucleation theory1,2, which assumes that the structure of nanometre-sized ice crystallites corresponds to that of hexagonal ice, the thermodynamically stable form of bulk ice.

From Nature • Nov. 7, 2017

The rock, which is of a granitic composition, contains numerous crystallites and has been subjected to considerable strain and crushing, which has resulted in foliation.

From The Long Labrador Trail by Wallace, Dillon