crystal
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It can be a liquid or a crystal form too.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The researchers used a detector built around a coffee-mug-sized piece of high-purity germanium crystal, protected by additional layers of copper and lead.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
“I think Warren wanted to be crystal clear that Greg is making the capital allocation decisions,” said Chris Bloomstran, chief investment officer of Semper Augustus Investments Group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
If you have a crystal ball that will tell me I will need memory care in old age, please share.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Maybe a crystal ball could tell us,” Cassiopeia said.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Those changes can be detected with these imaging techniques, allowing researchers to verify that the crystals recorded the collision itself.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
One leading idea involves magnetite, a magnetic mineral that may form tiny crystals inside an animal's body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
"Essentially, all of this happens because there is a physical relation between the size of a droplet and the size of ice crystals in the clouds and the frequency spectrum," she pointed out.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The crystals and lamé of their outfits played with the light from the disco ball hanging from the ceiling.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The temperature was perhaps ten below, with a bright sun that shone through ice crystals in the air so that everything seemed to sparkle.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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
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
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
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 Charles King
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
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