adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
form
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The particular clays he has in mind do exist in many different crystalline forms .
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Quartz is a crystalline form of silica.
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Both crystalline forms are examples of molecular crystals.
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In section 3.2 we saw that compounds which exist in more than one crystalline form are said to exhibit polymorphism.
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A mineral is defined as any one of a number naturally occurring solid inorganic substances with a characteristic regularly ordered crystalline form .
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Different mineral types have different characteristics in addition to their crystalline form , which set them apart.
material
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There is some kind of popular superstition that crystalline materials are weak.
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Thermoluminescence is a property of crystalline materials , such as quartz and feldspars, which are found in pottery.
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When we come to everyday crystalline materials , however, there is one more link in the argument.
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The proportion of crystalline material in natural cellulose varies a good deal but may be about thirty or forty percent of the whole.
structure
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Literary texts are not some static crystalline structure in which we may glimpse a captured immobile past.
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The glass transition Glass, familiar for centuries, is a solid material showing no crystalline structure .
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Below: A graphical representation of: The crystalline structure of silica.
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The crystalline structure of each particle of dust is copied from the clay in the parent stream.
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The first attempts to explain the crystalline structure of a polymer sample produced a model called the fringe-micelle structure.
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But in the conodonts examined so far the crystalline structure within this layer is very variable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a crystalline blue pool
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a hormone in pure crystalline form
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis has the ability to produce crystalline spores which act as natural insecticides.
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He possibly held that the universe was slightly ovoid, with a crystalline outer shell to which the stars were attached.
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Naturally occurring crystalline solids are called minerals.
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The crystalline post is controlled by special bond chemistry under controlled process conditions.
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The glass transition Glass, familiar for centuries, is a solid material showing no crystalline structure.
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The particular clays he has in mind do exist in many different crystalline forms.
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These are crystalline polymers with chain orientation virtually perfect in one direction.
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This imperfect distribution of cations is a disorder of the crystalline state.