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• If a tree decays and leaves some crystalline material behind.

• This is one type of topological defect, an anomaly that occurs in various forms wherever a regular geometry, like the parallel fibers in a hydra or the atomic arrangement in a crystalline solid, has its order seriously disturbed.

• One promising class of materials is perovskites, natural and lab-made compounds with a crystalline structure that makes them good semiconductors.

• You may just forget that fact, given the way the sugar business has prevented the world from digging deep into its crystalline secrets.

• Specifically, he was developing crystalline materials that allowed ions to easily flow in and out.

• Soon enough, I felt my own guts rebelling and stepped out into the crystalline Andean night.

• I saw on the Internet a suggestion that you should buy your grad a Swarofski Crystalline USB memory stick.

• They slowed, and the rushing sound gave way to a hush that made the crystalline tranquillity complete.

• He was crystalline clear about the example set by his father.

• Rarely, sodium urate occurs in crystalline form—slender prisms, arranged in fan- or sheaf-like structures (Fig. 32).

• It is a white crystalline fusible solid, insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol and in solutions of the alkalies.