crystal
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Together, these meta-atoms create a crystal unlike anything found naturally.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The researchers also found that the pattern of heat flow changed in predictable ways when the orientation of the crystal changed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 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
The temperature maps revealed distinct ray-shaped patterns aligned with specific directions in the crystal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Wait,” said Thorn as the Gran’s hand turned the crystal knob on her door.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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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
At Diamond Light Source, the team used synchrotron X-ray microtomography to watch crystals form inside the magma in real time.
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
A long cavern lined with crystals shimmered around him, reflecting back his torchlight.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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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
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
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 London, Jack
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