crystallisation

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You have witnessed the phenomena of crystallisation, and have had placed before you the facts which are found associated with the cleavage of slate rocks.

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  • * Phase transitions that occur in biosystems (protein crystallisation, globule-coil transition etc) * Liquid crystallinity as an example of the delicate range of partially ordered phases found with biological molecules —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • This looks to be the result of the natural process of crystallisation which takes place over time. —  The Forbidden Gospels Blog
  • Madlax, meanwhile, was to be even luckier; as the crystallisation of Margaret's HARD YURI powers, she was able to make any woman fall in love with her. —  Azure Flame
  • I have never studied crystallisation, but I believe it is a process by which particles of solid matter, temporarily separated by some liquid medium, draw together and coalesce. —  Gossamer 1915
  • In shape, crystallisation, fracture and hardness, it is the same, and often contains, in addition to the chromium, the further addition of traces of carbonate of lime, magnesia, and occasionally faint traces of hornblende and mica, which evidently result from its intimate association with the granite rock and gneiss, amongst which it is mostly found, the latter rocks being of a slaty nature, in layers or plates, and, like granite, containing mica, pyrites, felspar, quartz, etc Emeralds have been known from very early times, and are supposed to have been found first in the mines of ancient Egypt. —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
 

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