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crystallization

DEFINITIONS OF: crystallization

1

n the formation of crystals

Synonyms:
crystallisation, crystallizing
Types:
bloom, efflorescence
a powdery deposit on a surface
Type of:
chemical phenomenon
any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules)

n a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces

Synonyms:
crystal
Types:
crystallite
any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock
Type of:
rock, stone
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

n a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation

Type of:
construction, mental synthesis
the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
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