crystallization
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Earth Science - Middle School
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Crystallization along with melt-freeze cycles define the process in forming the different winter precipitation types, each bringing varying consequences.
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021
Crystallization is temperature-dependent, which is why more than half the first episodes of gout occur in the metatarsophalangeal joint of the big toe.
From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2011
Crystallization is a property of nonliving matter but when the virus was applied to the leaf it promptly acquired the ability to reproduce itself�a characteristic of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crystallization of many of these theories now appears in a comedy by Lawrence Langner, an executive of the Theatre Guild.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1904, Professor Moritz Benedikt of Vienna treated the whole question in his book, Crystallization and Morphogenesis, of which a French translation appeared in the Maloine Library.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
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