crystallization
The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
Other meanings
The body formed by crystallizing.
“Silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.”
The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase
Related words
- anticrystallization
- biocrystallization
- cocrystallization
- cryptocrystallization
- decrystallization
- nanocrystallization
- precrystallization
- recrystallization
- fractional crystallization
- post-crystallization
- water of crystallization
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