crystallize

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Rio Tinto was unwilling to stretch too far on a premium for long-dated copper options “at cycle-peak prices, while Glencore refused to crystallize its copper growth pipeline upfront,” says Peker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Outlook statements from the wave of earnings reports expected over the next two weeks will crystallize that view.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

To create this structure, the researchers heated a metastable form of sodium hydridoborate until it began to crystallize, then cooled it rapidly to lock the structure in place.

From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2025

Worthwhile documentaries crystallize a point in time in a way that contextualizes current circumstances.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2025

Images crystallize ideas—and the image of a double-helical molecule that carried the instructions to build, run, repair, and reproduce humans crystallized the optimism and wonder of the 1950s.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee