crystalline
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The exhibition’s 11 sections unfold not chronologically, but more in the manner of evolution on earth, moving from simple and crystalline to complex and fleshed out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
His team observed room-temperature phonon focusing in boron arsenide, a crystalline semiconductor known for its high thermal conductivity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The unshowy dedication to craft is a marvel, and so is much else in this crystalline little film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
I considered whipping the miso into cold butter, making a compound butter to scrape over oven-hot sourdough before adding tomato slices and crystalline hunks of salt.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Kepler knew there were no crystalline spheres in the heavens, and so he understood that the planets were moving through empty space on what he called an ‘orbit’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing crystalline
Earth Science - Middle School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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Rocks and Minerals - Introductory
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