crystal
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Getting enough sunlight onto the extremely small nonlinear crystal created another major obstacle.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Scattered across the living room floor, under a sparkling crystal chandelier, were dozens of photos of the same slender man in different settings - sitting at his desk, even playing in the snow.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
But it starts with trying to get it as accurate as possible in our crystal ball, looking forward to where we’re gonna be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The framework of amorphous interfaces consists of flexible internal boundaries that do not initially have the same orderly crystal structure as the surrounding material.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
The crystal dust that made Wind Being’s human form spun faster and faster.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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Indium-phosphide crystals are brittle and grown in small batches, and the industry is only now moving from three-inch to six-inch wafers, a step silicon took in the 1980s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Superheating also reorganizes the magma at a microscopic level, making its internal structure more uniform and less favorable for new crystals to develop.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
There's a child-like quality to festival make-up, he says, so embrace it - think playful colour and crystals.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Nearby, a handmade chandelier by artist Helen Stickler, decorated with vintage Swarovski crystals and beads, adds to what Weger describes as her “Candyland vibe.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
It was so cold that the moisture in the atmosphere had frozen into icy crystals.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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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
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 King, Charles
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 Clark, Lewis Gaylord
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 Dreiser, Theodore
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