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To test their approach, the researchers first examined a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, a type of crystal defect widely studied for quantum applications.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

The breakthrough also allowed the team to investigate how a crystal surface influences the molecules resting on it.

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

Godwin pointed to the blades in a jet turbine, each one a perfect crystal made of an advanced metal alloy that can withstand 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

It must have been there for a long time, because the crystal glass of ice water beside the silver dome was speckled with thick beads of condensation.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Inside the rock, they discovered tiny crystals of coesite, a mineral that can form only under extremely high pressure.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

By using more powerful lasers and developing higher-quality thorium crystals, they hope to substantially increase its precision.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

All my life I had heard about the white crystals that fell out of American skies in the winter.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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 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

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