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  • verb Present participle of crystallize.

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  • noun the formation of crystals

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Examples

  • Two years later a definitive breakthrough took place as Michel succeeded in crystallizing the reaction center from the photosynthetic bacterium

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 1988

  • Our knowledge about photosynthesis, respiration and other membrane-associated processes is limited due to the lack of information about the molecular organization of the membrane proteins involved, a problem which derives from difficulties in crystallizing these proteins.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 1988

  • As the water is subsequently moved through the other pond stages, other impurities preciptate out and 95 percent of the water is eventually evaporated before the water is moved into the final ponds (referred to as the crystallizing ponds) where the sodium chloride precipitates out at about 40 tonsp er acre and is then mechanically harvested.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • As the water is subsequently moved through the other pond stages, other impurities preciptate out and 95 percent of the water is eventually evaporated before the water is moved into the final ponds (referred to as the crystallizing ponds) where the sodium chloride precipitates out at about 40 [[U. S customary units | ton]] s per [[U. S customary units | acre]] (90 tonnes per hectometre) and is then mechanically harvested.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • As the water is subsequently moved through the other pond stages, other impurities preciptate out and 95 percent of the water is eventually evaporated before the water is moved into the final ponds (referred to as the crystallizing ponds) where the sodium chloride precipitates out at about 40 acre (90 tonnes per hectometre) and is then mechanically harvested.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • It's a kind of crystallizing moment in terms of why I'm proceeding with a type of social critique through what people are doing and saying about outer space.

    Kimberly Brooks: First Person Artist: Carrie Paterson, Barbarella And The Dark Side Of Mercury 2008

  • Furthermore, to obtain an idea of the "crystallizing" labor involved in transporting the simplest circumstances from reality to fiction, from life to romance, one need only open the _Moniteur Officiel_ of February, 1864, and compare a certain session of the Corps Législatif with the picture that I give of it in my book.

    The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • As the water is subsequently moved through the other pond stages, other impurities preciptate out and 95 percent of the water is eventually evaporated before the water is moved into the final ponds (referred to as the crystallizing ponds) where the sodium chloride precipitates out at about 40 [[U.S. customary units | ton]] s per [[U.S.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • As the water is subsequently moved through the other pond stages, other impurities preciptate out and 95 percent of the water is eventually evaporated before the water is moved into the final ponds (referred to as the crystallizing ponds) where the sodium chloride precipitates out at about 40 [[U.S. customary units | ton]] s per [[U.S.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • As the water is subsequently moved through the other pond stages, other impurities preciptate out and 95 percent of the water is eventually evaporated before the water is moved into the final ponds (referred to as the crystallizing ponds) where the sodium chloride precipitates out at about 40 [[U. S

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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