What is another word for crystallization?

Pronunciation: [kɹˌɪstɐla͡ɪzˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Crystallization is a process that involves the formation of solid crystals from a solution or mixture. Synonyms for this term include solidification, precipitation, formation, coagulation, and solidifying. Another widely used synonym for crystallization is nucleation, which describes the initial formation of small crystal seeds that eventually grow into larger structures. Some other related terms that can be used interchangeably with crystallization include aggregation, clumping, consolidation, concretion, and curdling. Regardless of the specific synonym used, each term describes a similar process of transformation from a liquid or semi-liquid state to a solid state.

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What are the opposite words for crystallization?

The antonyms for the word "crystallization" include melting, dissolving, liquefaction, evaporation, and sublimation. These words are opposite in meaning to crystallization, which refers to the process of forming crystals from a liquid or a solution. Melting is the process of converting a solid to a liquid, while dissolving means breaking down a solid into molecules that mix with a liquid. Liquefaction refers to the process of converting a gas into a liquid, while evaporation is the process of converting a liquid into a gas. Finally, sublimation is the process of converting a solid directly into a gas without passing through the liquid state. These antonyms provide a broad range of meanings that are the opposite of crystallization.

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Usage examples for Crystallization

The city: Is it not the crystallization of human greed and wickedness?
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
It is because of this that all art and all philosophy culminate in their final forms in a crystallization of those values of life that remain forever inexplicable to pure reason; they become religious in the simple, profound sense of that word.
"Poems"
Rainer Maria Rilke
Here he made a great impression on the mind of a young lady who frequented the museum, by the "sermons" that he found "in stones," for he read them out to her, showing that in inorganic nature, so called, could be traced not only laws of decay, that threw into stronger light those laws of life that he had learned to see in vegetation, but those of crystallization.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody

Famous quotes with Crystallization

  • There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
    John Updike
  • fusion, calcination, solution, filtration, crystallization, sublimation and especially distillation; and methods of heating include the open fire, lamps, and the sand and water baths. Nearly all this practical knowledge... the Arabs... derived... from the very source we are now considering.
    J. R. Partington
  • I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
    Stendhal
  • The best aphorisms are pointed expressions of the results of observation, experience, and reflection. They are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
    William R. Alger
  • There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
    John Updike

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