recrystallize
Americanverb (used without object)
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to become crystallized again.
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Metallurgy. (of a metal) to acquire a new granular structure with new crystals because of plastic deformation, as when hot-worked.
verb (used with object)
verb
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chem to dissolve and subsequently crystallize (a substance) from the solution, as in purifying chemical compounds, or (of a substance) to crystallize in this way
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to undergo or cause to undergo the process in which a deformed metal forms a new set of undeformed crystal grains
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of recrystallize
First recorded in 1790–1800; re- + crystallize
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That’s one of the great things about rarely sung songs: They can quickly recrystallize to reflect new circumstances.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2021
Fine-grained shale and basalt, which happen to be chemically similar, characteristically recrystallize to produce hornfels.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
In other words, when a rock is subjected to increased temperatures, certain minerals may become unstable and start to recrystallize into new minerals.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
There the moisture evaporates, leaving behind the salts, which recrystallize, forcing apart the grains of stone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many limestones are rich in aragonite, but this in course of time tends to recrystallize as calcite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
He wanted crystals with rims that had melted and recrystallized, an assurance that the impact had reset a clock in which small amounts of radioactive uranium, trapped within the crystal, decay into lead.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 27, 2019
Some of the melted and recrystallized rocks from beneath the crater—including Barlangi Rock—had also survived.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 27, 2019
Following recrystallization to remove clay and other impurities, heating the recrystallized trona produces Na2CO3:
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
“Heat and pressure squeezed these layers and recrystallized them into schist” — after intermediate periods as shale, slate and phyllite.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2014
Crystals are formed which are pressed, decolorized by animal charcoal, and recrystallized from boiling water.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various
Dissolving and recrystallizing, these highlighted spatial tensions among the 12 dancers, but I hope the addition is temporary.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2015
Limestones, however, are metamorphosed by pressure into marble, the grains of carbonate of lime recrystallizing freely to interlocking crystals of calcite.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
In case of need, the ferricyanide can be purified by adding to its solution a little bromine water and recrystallizing the compound.
From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Talbot, Henry P.
Interior stresses are inherent in any sedimentary formation, when settling and consolidating and recrystallizing under gravity, and these may be independent of regional thrusts from without.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
In recrystallizing benzalacetophenone, the alcohol should be saturated at 50'0.
From Organic Syntheses by Conant, James Bryant
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