Crystallization

Definition: Crystallization

Crystallization

Noun

1. The formation of crystals.

Date "crystallization" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1710. (references)

Domain	Definition
Chemical Industry	Effect caused by lacquers containing materials which crystallize out from the medium as the solvent evaporates. Source: European Union. (references)
	A condition in which a dried ink film repels a second ink which must be printed on the top of it. Source: European Union. (references)
Chemistry	Formation of solid in the form of crystals. Source: European Union. (references)
Geological	Growth of minerals (crystalline solids) from a liquid or gas. (references)
Health	The formation of crystals; conversion to a crystalline form. (references)
Mining	A. The process through which crystalline phases separate from a fluid, a viscous, or a dispersed state (gas, liquid solution, or rigid solution) b. The process of crystallizing. A form of body resulting from crystallizing c. Formation of crystalline phases during the cooling of a melt orprecipitation from a solution. (references)
Physics	The process through which crystalline phases separate from a fluid, viscous, or dispersed state(gas, liquid solution, or rigid solution). ; formation of solid in the form of crystals ; formation of crystals, either by evaporation or cooling of a solution or condensation of a vapour. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Crystallization

Synonyms: crystallisation (n), crystallizing (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Density	Condensation; caseation; solidation, solidification; consolidation; concretion, coagulation; petrification. (hardening); crystallization, precipitation; deposit, precipitate; inspissation; gelation, thickening. Verb:
Hardness	Induration, petrifaction; lapidification, lapidescence; vitrification, ossification; crystallization.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Admixtures in Crystallization (reference) Crystallization of Polymers Volume 1: Equilibrium Concepts (reference) Crystallization of the Epistle to the Romans (reference) Metamorphic Crystallization (reference) Oriented Crystallization on Amorphous Substances (Microdevices: Physics and Fabrication Technologies) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Crystallization [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	This frame, so slightly clad, was a sort of crystallization around me, and reacted on the builder.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Locally produced products still have low quality levels, due to backward production technologies used, such as crystallization, distillation, extraction, sublimation, and direct synthesis methods. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Crystallization" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crystallization" is used about 101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	101	32,488

Expressions using "crystallization": Blood crystallization ♦ Fractional crystallization ♦ Herbal crystallization analysis ♦ water of crystallization. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "crystallization": co-crystallization.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "crystallization"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kristalizim. (various references)

Arabic		‏مادة متبلورة, ‏تبلور المادة, ‏تبلور (crystallize, take shape), ‏جسم متبلور, ‏بلورة. (various references)

Bulgarian		кристализиране. (various references)

Chinese		�"晶 (crystallisation, crystallise, crystallised, Crystallize, Crystallized, Crystallizing). (various references)

Czech		krystalizace. (various references)

Danish		udkrystallisation (crystallisation). (various references)

Dutch		kristallisatie (crystallisation, devitrification). (various references)

Finnish		kiteytyminen (crystallisation, devitrification, nucleation). (various references)

French		cristallisation (crystallisation). (various references)

German		Kristallisation (crystal formation, crystallisation, crystallizing, crystallizing out-), kristallbildung (crystal formation, crystallizing, crystallizing out-). (various references)

Greek		κρυστάλλωσις (crystal formation, crystallizing, crystallizing out-), κρυστάλλωση (crystallisation, to crystallize, to grain), κρυσταλλοποίηση (crystallisation), σχηματισμός κρυστάλλου (crystal formation, crystallizing, crystallizing out-), απώθηση του μελανιού, αποκρυστάλλωση. (various references)

Hebrew		�"ת�'בשות (materialization), �"וצרות �'בישים, �'בישיות, �'בוש (accomplishment, consolidation, stabilization). (various references)

Hungarian		kristályosodás, kristályosítás, kikristályosodás, kikristályosítás. (various references)

Indonesian		penghabluran, kristalisasi. (various references)

Italian		Cristallizzazione (crystallisation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		結晶 (crystal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょうか (anthem, berry, brothel, carol, commercial course, digestion, extinguishing a fire, fire fighting, going up and down, high and low, hymn of praise, juicy fruit, mercantile house, merchant, nitrification, singing, slight mistake, songs, store, sublimation, summering, the government and the people), けっしょう (blood plasma, crystal, decision of a contest, finals, plasma). (various references)

Korean		결� ��" (crystallisation). (various references)

Manx		crystallaghey (crystallize). (various references)

Pig Latin		ystallizationcray

Portuguese		cristalização (crystal formation, crystallisation, crystallizing, crystallizing out-). (various references)

Romanian		cristalizare. (various references)

Russian		кристаллизация. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kristalizacija. (various references)

Spanish		cristalización (crystal formation, crystallisation, crystallizing, crystallizing out-). (various references)

Swedish		kristallisering (crystallisation). (various references)

Turkish		kristalleşme. (various references)

Ukrainian		кристалічна структура, кристалізація (solidification). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự kết tinh. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "crystallization": crystallizations. (additional references)
	Words ending with "crystallization": recrystallization. (additional references)
	Words containing "crystallization": recrystallizations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Crystallization" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cristalization, crystalisation, crystalization, crystilization. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "crystallization" (pronounced 'Crys`tal*li*za"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-i-l-l-n-o-r-s-t-t-y-z"
	-3 letters: antiroyalist, antisocially, aoristically, artistically, scintillator, tinctorially.
	-4 letters: rationalist, rationality, satirically, stylization, titanically.
	-5 letters: acylations, antiracist, antisocial, castration, citational, ironically, lactations, notarially, rationally, sanitarily, sinoatrial, solicitant, solitarily, statically, stationary, tinctorial, tractional.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-i-l-l-n-o-r-s-t-t-y-z"
	+1 letter: crystallizations.
	+2 letters: recrystallization.
	+3 letters: recrystallizations.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
crystallization	41
protein crystallization	6
crystallization fractional	3
crystallization sugar	3
crystallization ppg	3
crystallization food in industry	2
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Crystallization

Definition: Crystallization