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Crystal

noun

A solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure.

A crystalline element used as a component in various electronic devices.

A rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces. Synonym: crystallization.

Colorless glass made of almost pure silica. Synonyms: lechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica.

Glassware made of quartz.

A protective cover that protects the face of a watch. Synonyms: watch crystal, watch glass.

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"Crystal" Quotes from Famous Books

... too requires skilled workmen and extreme care. The water is evaporated and the sugar crystallized in the vacuum pans, the size crystal depending upon the temperature at which the liquid is boiled. It takes a lower temperature to form a small crystal and a higher one to form a large crystal. An expert who takes the temperature of the boiling sugar regulates what we call fine-grain ...

— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett

... was not that Nature had shed o'er the scene Her purest of crystal and brightest of green; 'Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill, Oh! no,—it was something more ...

— The Ontario Readers - Third Book • Ontario Ministry of Education

... balmier climes. Nor will it be the least charm of the spectacle that it will enable us to compare this living species with other Edentata of South America—such as the Megatherium, now only found in the fossil state, but so admirably restored by Mr Hawkins for the Crystal Palace. ...

— Heads and Tales • Various

... hearts are warm and true, And love's lamp brightly burns, And sparkles Hermon's pearly dew On childhood's crystal urns. ...

— A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, - of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England • Eliza Southall

... feeling amiably bound to bear out Mr. Bounderby to the fullest extent in the testimony he had borne to her nerves, occasionally sat back in her chair and silently wept; at which periods a tear of large dimensions, like a crystal ear-ring, might be observed (or rather, must be, for it insisted on public notice) ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

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