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crystal

[kris-tl] / ˈkrɪs tl /


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Godwin pointed to the blades in a jet turbine, each one a perfect crystal made of an advanced metal alloy that can withstand 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"If I had a crystal ball I would just say 'guys, get in the jacuzzi and I will see you tomorrow'."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

To make this possible, the researchers developed a system built around a special crystal containing thorium atoms, manufactured at TU Wien.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

“We felt like legally it was crystal clear, and we had authority. So we called the trusted contact, her adult daughter. She responded immediately, and said, ‘I’m so glad to hear from you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

With a collective ruffle of fabric, the twenty-eight Witchlings pulled out their crystal amulets, which hung from black cords around their necks, and held them in front of their faces.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Gravity then pulls those crystals to the ground.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

This approach to weather modification, now more than 80-years-old, involves using planes and drones to disperse compounds such as silver iodide into clouds to form ice crystals.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Zircon crystals can also preserve microscopic structures created by the intense pressures generated during an impact.

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

Using borax, water, and pipe cleaners, we made our own crystals.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

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

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

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

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


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