Word Finder - crystal

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A solid composed of an array of atoms or molecules possessing long-range order and arranged in a pattern which is periodic in three dimensions.

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A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.

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A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.

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Crystal meth: methamphetamine hydrochloride.

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The glass over the dial of a watch case.

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Very clear.

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"Do I make myself clear?" / "Crystal."

There's a new term floating around; crystal ball search warrant.

She glanced around at the crystal chandeliers and velvet curtains.

The dining room table is cherry and topped with fresh flowers in a crystal bowl.

Stick to your crystal ball and leave the detective work to me.

I told him I had no idea how you accomplished what you did but you were a crystal ball of an asset to us.

She was in her mid-twenties, with crystal clear blue eyes and porcelain skin.

My crystal ball doesn't work as well as it should.

She joined crowds of people milling through downtown Crystal City to see the Christmas displays and shop.

Well, if you do exist, Mister or Missus Psychic, I'll find you first and smash you and your crystal to bloody dust!

There is a considerable export of quartz crystal, commercially known as "Brazilian pebbles," used in optical work.

A matching china cabinet held fine china, crystal and silverware.

She rubbed her eyes and tilted her watch crystal around until the light reflected enough to read the dial.

The cake topper was a simple crystal heart with violet forget-me-nots.

The crystal sustains you for eternity and binds you.

His eyes were on the crystal.

The Crystal Palace is in this district.

Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count's monogram that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank with enjoyment, gazing with ever- increasing amiability at the other guests.

All these vessels are beautifully worked, the crystal bowl especially, with its fish-shaped cover handle, being as a work of art of high merit.

The wedding cake rose gracefully in three tiers, graced with crystal staircases and small cakes on either side.

Jonny's eyes dropped from her to the crystal at her chest.

In some cases special secreting tissues, resin ducts, oil glands, laticiferous tissue, crystal sacs, &c., may be developed among the ordinary secondary vascular elements.

When light from an extended source is made to converge upon the crystal, the phenomenon of rings and brushes localized at infinity is obtained.The exact calculation of the intensity in this case is very complicated and the resulting expression is too unwieldy to be of any use, but as an approximation the formula for the case of a parallel beam may be employed, the quantities and p therein occurring being regarded as functions of the angle and plane of incidence and consequently as variables.

Ouray County was perfect for invigorating outdoor activity, with its crystal clear air and dry, windless temperatures just below freezing.

He handled the baby as if it were made of crystal.

Jessi gripped the crystal.

Jessi dug out the round, flat red crystal.

The mere retention of the same crystal form by homologous substances is not a sufficient reason for denying a morphotropic effect to the substituent group; for, in the case of certain substances crystallizing in the cubic system, although the crystal form remains unaltered, yet the structures vary.

The municipal water supply comes from a reservoir at Crystal Springs at the foot of Mill Mountain near the city limits.

The crystal represented in fig.

To Jaeger is due the determination of the topic parameters of certain haloid-derivatives, and, while showing that the morphotropic effects closely resemble those occasioned by methyl, he established the important fact that, in general, the crystal form depended upon the orientation of the substituents in the benzene complex.

The nitro group behaves very similarly to the hydroxyl group. The effect of varying the position of the nitro group in the molecule is well marked, and conclusions may be drawn as to the orientation of the groups from a knowledge of the crystal form; a change in the symmetry of the chemical molecule being often attended by a loss in the symmetry of the crystal.

Obsidian and rock crystal were also used for knife making.

The intention would seem to have been to imitate vessels of rock crystal.

The making of beads was probably practised at Venice from a very early period, but the earliest documentary evidence bearing on the subject does not appear to be of earlier date than the 14th century, when prohibitions were directed against those who made of glass such objects as were usually made of crystal or other hard stones.

The famous Baccarat works, for making crystal glass,.

The dark, regularly oriented crystal skeletons were already solid at the moment of chilling; they are rich in copper.

As a matter of fact such persons sometimes can and sometimes cannot see pictures in the way of crystal-gazing; while many who can see in the crystal have had no spontaneous hallucinations.

In these respects, and in the awakeness of the scryer, crystal pictures differ from hypnagogic illusions.

One or two scryers think that they, too, can trace the picture as it develops on the suggestion of some passage of light, colour or shadow in the glass or crystal.

Crystal pictures, however, are commonly dismissed as mere results of "imagination," a theory which, of course, is of no real assistance to psychology.

On one occasion the scryer could see nothing, "the crystal preserved its natural diaphaneity," as Dr Dee says; and there were failures with two or three inquirers.

Thomas's Crystal Gazing the history and anthropology of the subject are investigated, with modern instances.

But his example and his zeal profoundly influenced for good the Irish poor forming the majority of his flock; and the "League of the Cross" which he founded, and which held annual demonstrations at the Crystal Palace, numbered nearly 30,000 members in London alone in 1874.

The water is so crystal clear that one inadvertently steps into it.

This, with the Crystal Palace gardens, forms a recreation ground for the people of Birmingham.

Examining the light reflected from the windows of the Luxemburg palace with a doubly refracting prism, he was led to infer (though more refined experiments have shown that this is not strictly the case) that light reflected at a certain angle, called the polarizing angle, from the surface of transparent substances has the same properties with respect to the plane of incidence as those of the ordinary stream in Iceland spar with respect to the principal plane of the crystal.

He is performing computer modeling of the performance of liquid crystal twisted nematic LCOS display devices.

These clays contain round nodules of limestone with ammonites preserved in green calcite crystal tho there are very difficult to clean.

Care must be taken to properly optimize cathode temperature to obtain the required emission without overheating the crystal.

Baud rate is determined by the speed of the ceramic resonator or crystal attached to the microcontroller.