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crystallization

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The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. John Updike

I call crystallization that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. Stendhal

The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet. Novalis

I surmise that mathematical knowledge amounts to the crystallization of officially endorsed delusions in an intellectual quicksand. Henry Flynt

All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment. Louis MacNeice

A composition from which they could reasonably be produced by fractional crystallization is termed a parental melt. Source: Internet

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