noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bath salts/crystals (= a substance that you put in a bath to make it smell nice )
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She bought me some lavender bath salts.
crystal ball
crystal clear (= extremely clear )
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The instructions on the packet are crystal clear.
crystal clear
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I want to make one thing crystal clear – I do not agree with these proposals.
crystal meth
ice crystals (= very small pieces of ice that form naturally )
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Ice crystals fall from the sky as snowflakes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
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Sandie's vocals, clear as crystal , slipped joyfully into her Morrissey role.
different
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In addition water can form several different kinds of crystals .
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Irons come in a variety of classes with different crystal structures, chemical compositions, and inclusions of other minerals.
fine
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There is a fine crystal chandelier of the 19C and do note too, the metalwork on the doors.
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The rehabilitation of the troubled fine china and crystal maker is likely to continue to be slow and painful.
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William Morris of Arundel, for the loan of the fine china and crystal for the photographs.
large
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This was actually smaller than the dressing room but was richly furnished and lit by a large crystal chandelier.
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Tonight she would wear the swinging strands of rolled gold ending in one large crystal drop.
liquid
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The units use back light liquid crystal displays and, according to Burmarc, consume very little power.
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Incoming phone numbers are displayed on a liquid crystal diode screen.
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New products, including liquid crystal display televisions, long-life batteries and new materials offer promise for the future.
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The front of the box is a flat panel, color liquid crystal display with tiny stereo speakers and a built-in microphone.
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Measurements are shown on a liquid crystal display.
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Sergeyev has developed a machine that uses liquid crystals to recover such energy from the surface of these objects.
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Special liquid crystal glasses are required to see the 3D effect.
salt
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It is likely therefore that the salt crystals were scooped out as they formed.
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Eventually the weight of the salt crystals peels them off the upper surface and they settle into the bottom of the liquid.
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The salt crystals spontaneously began to change to fern shapes whenever the experiment began.
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The method produces salt crystals from brine pumped up from the salt beds by a steam engine.
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The bubbles condense into droplets which attach to salt crystals and other particles in the atmosphere and eventually form clouds.
single
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The silicon ingots are highly perfect single crystals and on the atomic scale the cutting has to proceed through breaking bonds.
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Although small, these single crystals can be studied using an electron microscope.
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If the host is a single crystal , the spread of frequencies is not very great.
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The instruments are designed for high precision scientific applications including single crystal calorimetry, laser induced desorption and flash temperature gas evolution.
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The technique produces spectra which sometimes include several peaks for a single crystal .
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Sample preparation Single crystal samples with polished surfaces give the best results.
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This model has now been virtually discarded in the light of more recent research which has revealed features incompatible with this picture. Single crystals .
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It's made from a single crystal of silica.
small
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However, X-ray analysis has shown that all these forms of carbon consist of small graphite-like crystals .
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That is many times smaller than crystals of conventional ferric oxide, and about one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair.
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Growth proceeds from a small crystal nucleus which develops into a fibril.
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These small crystals are known as phenocrysts and are one of the most characteristic features of andesites.
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In the centre of the cavern is a small crystal column, on which a golden chalice stands.
tiny
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The redhead's hair sparkled with tiny ice crystals .
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And for a very few minutes I listen to the whisper of tiny tinkling snow crystals falling now in ever denser sheets.
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Crystallizable polymers consist of a mass of tiny crystals , usually mis-oriented with respect to one another and embedded in non-crystalline material.
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Now we simultaneously drop into our supersaturated solution a tiny flat crystal and a tiny chunky crystal.
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Clays and muds and rocks are made of tiny crystals .
white
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When they are exhaled they are filtered through the white crystals of soda lime, and a bacterial filter.
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Then they pulled out tiny glass phials of white crystal .
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In it are the different specimens of salt which are found in the mine, some of the red and white crystals .
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I chipped up the wafers and mixed them into a jar of white crystals .
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Their creamy white bodies are covered with spiky white ice crystals .
■ NOUN
ball
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They must not have hired him for his political foresight, either, because his crystal ball record is abysmal.
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Gazing into our crystal ball , we see Scott breaking her campaign promise to not privatize Tucson Water.
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You are on a globe that looks like a crystal ball or a marble in a light bed of cotton wool.
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Not glass to reflect bit of the world, but a crystal ball to look into soas to understand the world.
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The scientists' crystal ball is a bit cloudy on some things though.
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A crystal ball in which one can call up the past?
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Or maybe you have seen a crystal ball containing a tiny house which you can shake to produce a brilliant snowstorm?
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If you are still out of work, the tribunal has to gaze into its crystal ball .
chandelier
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There is a fine crystal chandelier of the 19C and do note too, the metalwork on the doors.
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This was actually smaller than the dressing room but was richly furnished and lit by a large crystal chandelier .
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Harry remembered the crystal chandeliers and as the warmth began to work through him he dozed.
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Above us hung new crystal chandeliers announcing the growing wealth of the place.
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She danced her nights away under crystal chandeliers among the first in the land.
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The fabulous Crillon, with its marble columns, crystal chandeliers and tapestries, was probably the most exclusive hotel in Paris.
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The beautiful dining room has an Adam ceiling, crystal chandeliers and Chippendale furniture.
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Aspirations to elegance, with well-dressed tables and crystal chandeliers , are instantly destroyed if the carpet screams at the guests.
decanter
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Charles Winter presented him with a Gleneagles crystal decanter and 12 glasses.
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He picked up a crystal decanter of amber liqueur, set it down.
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Werner placed the attache case beside the chair then poured himself a stiff Scotch from the crystal decanter on the sideboard.
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He was presented with a cut glass crystal decanter by senior purchasing manager David Bayston.
display
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The units use back light liquid crystal displays and, according to Burmarc, consume very little power.
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New products, including liquid crystal display televisions, long-life batteries and new materials offer promise for the future.
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Measurements are shown on a liquid crystal display .
glass
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Lead crystal glass Hot water and dishwasher detergent can cause pitting or cracking.
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Come see your life in my crystal glass Twenty-five cents is all you pay.
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Another worthwhile trip is to Rattenberg, where you can still see the traditional skills involved in crystal glass making.
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The crystal glasses have to be carefully washed by hand and the Royal Doulton china stored away.
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Martin was presented with a gold watch from the Company and six crystal glasses from his branch colleagues.
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Basic chemicals evolve into high-performance ceramics, to single-crystal silicon and high-grade crystal glass .
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The air is clear and the mountains are pyramids of crystal glass .
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Special liquid crystal glasses are required to see the 3D effect.
growth
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For example, his best known prediction made in 1949 that crystal growth is mediated by dislocations has been confirmed on many occasions.
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There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions, not three.
ice
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This is crucial as the ice crystals formed when water freezes would destroy the egg tissues.
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Their creamy white bodies are covered with spiky white ice crystals .
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If it is frozen at different atmospheric pressures, the ice crystals formed are different.
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In fact water can form at least nine different types of ice crystal .
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The redhead's hair sparkled with tiny ice crystals .
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Frostbite is the effect of ice crystals forming within the skin.
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However, when ice crystals form, they will have definite positions and will be lined up in some direction.
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Scrubby bushes festooned with ice crystals which gleamed.
lattice
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This is the technique which detects stored energy in the crystal lattice of minerals, caused by natural radiation.
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The model is based on the geometry of the crystal lattice .
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The structure of the crystal lattice must therefore preserve electrical neutrality.
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Substances which have the same type of chemical formula and which crystallise with the same crystal lattice are said to be isomorphous.
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As Born first showed there are precise relationships between the crystal elastic constants and the interatomic forces in a regular crystal lattice .
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As a result, these particles are held in fixed positions in a crystal lattice .
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The arrangement of atoms, molecules or ions in a crystal can be depicted as a crystal lattice .
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The crystal lattice is composed of a basic unit called a unit cell.
quartz
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Top right: Right handed and left handed quartz crystals .
rock
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A pair of rock crystal goblets engraved with the cipher of Peter the Great.
structure
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This gave the group a crystal structure at a resolution of 2.5 Å.
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Thus, by their crystal structure , minerals can tell us something of the pressure conditions at their time of formation.
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You need a very powerful microscope if you are to see the fundamental crystal structure of our environment.
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The patterns of the lines can be used to find a probable crystal structure .
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Almost all metals have one or other of these three crystal structures .
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Today crystal structures are analyzed by computer-controlled x-ray diffraction equipment.
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Here we describe the crystal structure of a decameric CypA-CsA complex.
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Irons come in a variety of classes with different crystal structures , chemical compositions, and inclusions of other minerals.
■ VERB
form
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It is likely therefore that the salt crystals were scooped out as they formed .
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This process forms gratings in the crystal , a record of the interference pattern.
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This acts with the dissolved rock to form calcite crystals which build into often spectacular formations.
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As frozen crystals come into contact as water droplets they fuse together forming even bigger crystals.
grow
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Your two crystals grow visibly: they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow.
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That has been helpful for scientists seeking to grow better crystals in orbit.
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Bones grow by accumulating crystals of minerals.
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A 30-percent or 40-percent success rate in growing crystals is considered good.
produce
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The method produces salt crystals from brine pumped up from the salt beds by a steam engine.
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One experiment produced crystals of protein molecules that drug company researchers believe could advance the development of antiviral drugs.
use
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The units use back light liquid crystal displays and, according to Burmarc, consume very little power.
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I used the crystal in my wristwatch - all kinds of things.
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Sergeyev has developed a machine that uses liquid crystals to recover such energy from the surface of these objects.
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He was however grateful to her for curing him; he had not had to use the purple crystals again.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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copper sulfate crystals
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The table was set with the best china and crystal .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Argenta silvered crystal bowl; perfume bottle.
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Granulites are like their textural equivalents, granular igneous rocks, in being mosaics of interlocking crystals of roughly equal size.
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It is a challenge for the future to demonstrate that crystal engineering is providing a new way of thinking chemistry.
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It is even possible to dissolve certain types of crystal if the foods used are special diets, carefully chosen by vets.
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One of the simplest is an ionic crystal like sodium chloride, the first mineral analyzed after the discovery of x-ray diffraction.
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She ran herself a deep bath with bath crystals and perfume poured into the water.
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The crystal acts as an analyser which ascertains whether or not the photon has polarisation perpendicular to the optical axis of the crystal.
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The door wasn't locked, and the simularity crystal was still in the desk reader.