crystal

At room temperature, the crystal material gradually evaporates through a process known as sublimation, in which a solid transforms directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Among the early advances was the prediction of the crystal anomalous Hall effect, a phenomenon involving electrical transport in certain crystal structures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

On a day of defiance in east Manchester, City's fans made their feelings crystal clear in their first top-flight home game since being found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

"If I had a crystal ball I would just say 'guys, get in the jacuzzi and I will see you tomorrow'."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

“Your pirate play will be a smash hit in the West End. The crystal ball don’t lie, honey. Your show is a hit! Or was. Or will be.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Gravity then pulls those crystals to the ground.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Those crystals eventually become large enough to fall as rain or snow, depending on the temperatures below.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Those changes can be detected with these imaging techniques, allowing researchers to verify that the crystals recorded the collision itself.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

By dating zircon crystals taken from granite altered by the impact, the team determined that the meteorite struck about 370 million years ago during the Late Devonian.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Tiny frost crystals had formed on the outside.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

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

Now I ascended, or again descended the dropping and crystalled rocks; now crept into openings, which suddenly terminated, and turning again, anxiously listened to the sound of the rippling water as my only guide.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon panelled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.

From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser

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