crystal
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The scientists discovered that molecules deposited on their exceptionally clean crystal surface consistently reached the Fourier limit.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 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
A laser shines onto the crystal, interacting with the thorium nuclei inside.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
There in the depths of the crystal ball was...the rain barrel at the corner of our house.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
PDWs are extremely delicate and require highly regular crystals to form.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Gravity then pulls those crystals to the ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
This approach to weather modification, now more than 80-years-old, involves using planes and drones to disperse compounds such as silver iodide into clouds to form ice crystals.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
"These small crystals allow us to go back in time and learn about the major changes to Earth's ancient landscapes," Stockli said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
But then again, she’s really into astrology and healing crystals.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
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
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
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
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
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