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Crystallizing   /krˈɪstəlˌaɪzɪŋ/   Listen
Crystallizing

noun
1.
The formation of crystals.  Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallization.






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"Crystallizing" Quotes from Famous Books



... own, and said in his tender voice, so long unheard: "To-morrow, dear love, our wealth may perhaps be limitless. Yesterday, in searching for a far more important secret, I think I found the means of crystallizing carbon, the substance of the diamond. Oh, my dear wife! in a few days' time you will forgive me all my forgetfulness—I am forgetful sometimes, am I not? Was I not harsh to you just now? Be indulgent for a man who never ...
— The Alkahest • Honore de Balzac

... been to plead the cause of literary study at a time when that study is being depreciated and discouraged. But along with the general plea must go some indication that literature can be studied as well as read. Hence some of the articles attempt—what must always be a difficult task—the crystallizing of the ...
— Platform Monologues • T. G. Tucker

... the parallelogram of forces becomes an inner experience of our organism at the beginning of our earthly life. What we thus carry in the body's will-region in the form of experienced geometry - this, together with the freeing and crystallizing of part of our will-substance into our conceptual capacity, is transformed into our faculty of forming geometrical concepts, and among them the concept ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs

... fresh, unabated, Neither carved nor wrought by hand! Here the spirit has forever Vanished into stone and wave,— There it breathes as free as ever, Like a warrior strong and brave! When the evening's crystallizing Vapors settle on my breast, Lo! I see before me rising Norway's snow-illumined crest! Here is life decayed and dying, Sunk in torpor, still, forlorn,— There go avalanches flying, Life anew in death is born! If I ...
— Early Plays - Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans • Henrik Ibsen



Words linked to "Crystallizing" :   crystallize, efflorescence, chemical phenomenon, crystallization, bloom



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