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Pronunciation: [kɹˈɪstə͡lz] (IPA)

Crystals are a fascinating natural phenomenon that has been admired since ancient times. They come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, and are used for both decorative and healing purposes. Synonyms for the word "crystals" include gemstones, mineral specimens, precious stones, rocks, minerals, and geodes. These terms are often used interchangeably, but they may refer to different types of crystals depending on their origin and composition. Gemstones are typically cut and polished for use in jewelry, while mineral specimens are collected for their scientific and educational value. Precious stones are often associated with value and rarity, while geodes are recognized for their unique hollow interior filled with crystals. Regardless of their name, crystals remain a remarkable part of the natural world.

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Usage examples for Crystals

When the crystals are small, it is often difficult to distinguish hornblende from augite.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Now and then, a blinding gust of wind, filled with freezing snow crystals, almost lifted us from our feet.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
By morning the air was clear of frost crystals.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Crystals

  • Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.
    George Mercer Dawson
  • Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
    James Russell Lowell
  • How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind! The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air. It sees the crystals of the rock in rapid sympathetic motion, giving enthusiastic obedience to the sun's rays, then sinking back to rest in the night. The whole world is in motion to the center. So also sounds. We hear only woodpeckers and squirrels and the rush of turbulent streams. But imagination gives us the sweet music of tiniest insect wings, enables us to hear, all round the world, the vibration of every needle, the waving of every bole and branch, the sound of stars in circulation like particles in the blood. The Sierra canyons are full of avalanche debris — we hear them boom again, for we read past sounds from present conditions. Again we hear the earthquake rock-falls. Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarser senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.
    John Muir
  • All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.
    John Muir
  • At first the tumbling had me totally disoriented. With each degree that I turned, the images around me would deform and change. Three given blobs might split or merge to two or five, while some other shape's angular facets would sprout interlocking crystals. It was a little like trying to make out a human body by watching a Carousel slideshow of three hundred sixty microtomed cross sections.
    Rudy Rucker

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