Sentence examples for crystalline from high-quality English sources.

• …pack together in an ordered crystalline arrangement.

• This grows the semiconductors, crystalline layer by crystalline layer.

• Because of this feature, minerals are classified as crystalline solids.

• The resulting gallstones contain large amounts of crystalline cholesterol and…

• The crystalline terrain has been thrust upward and toward the fold and thrust belt.

• Semicrystalline materials display crystalline regions, called crystallites, within an amorphous matrix.

• This accumulated snow gradually turns into crystalline ice as it becomes buried under further snowfalls.

• Most fold and thrust belts are bounded on one side, or lie parallel to, a belt or terrain of crystalline rocks.

Use crystalline in a sentence.

• Atropine, poisonous crystalline substance belonging to a class of compounds known as alkaloids and used in medicine.

• The resulting gallstones contain large amounts of crystalline cholesterol and smaller quantities of calcium bilirubinate.

• They are characterized by two main types of rock: ancient crystalline rock (formed of mineral crystals) and sedimentary rock.

• Some other polymers have molecules that fit together so well that they tend to pack together in an ordered crystalline arrangement.

• The reduced bond energy in crystalline silicon renders the element lower melting, softer, and chemically more reactive than diamond.

• Differences in the crystalline forms of many elements and compounds were discovered during the 1820s by Eilhardt Mitscherlich, a German chemist.

• With certain straight-chain aliphatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives, urea forms crystalline inclusion compounds, which are useful for purifying the included substances.

• The Brazilian Highlands are composed of ancient crystalline rocks, which in the vicinity of São Paulo form a surface of gently rounded hills mantled with a reddish clay soil.

crystalline sentence examples

• Amorphous (non-crystalline) substances such as glass or pitch melt by gradually decreasing in viscosity as temperature is raised, with no sharp transition from solid to liquid.

• Devitrification, or conversion of the glass to a microscopically fine crystalline aggregate, is usually initiated spontaneously along cracks or at the surfaces of phenocrysts and crystalline bodies (spherulites).

• Metamorphic rocks are almost always crystalline; the term crystalline schists has been applied to indicate all rocks of metamorphic origin, and thus the term crystalline rocks may be taken to mean an igneous origin.

• Many quartzites, however, have been crushed, and the quartz largely is a mosaic of small, irregularly shaped crystalline fragments with interlocking margins; if these sheared quartzites contain white mica in parallel crystalline flakes, they become more fissile (easily broken apart) and pass into quartz schists.