mixed crystal

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noun

chem a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds

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Words nearby mixed crystal

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Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.
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Residents of the neighborhoods where cops are needed the most are mixed on the impact of the apparent slowdown.
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Some of the video was crystal clear, but in other footage the figures were just fuzzy shadows in black and white.
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Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England.
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Furthermore, mixed race children are the fastest growing population in the country.
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Broken crocks should be strewn upon the tray, and on to this is heaped peaty soil mixed with sand.
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"I'm not proud," replied Davy, provoked at being mixed up with Gobobbles in this way.
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The long axis of the hip-roof crystal is often so shortened that it resembles the envelop crystal of calcium oxalate.
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One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.
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Yet the feeling is in most children weak and vacillating, and is wont to be mixed with other and less noble ones.
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