Crystal: alternatives and connections

Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.

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Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.

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The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.

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See Roc.

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Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard…

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Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded…

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A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any m…

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A paling; a hurdle.

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A bud.

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Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

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A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.

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Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded…

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Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

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To make an idea or pattern become clear and definite.

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To make an idea or pattern become clear and definite.

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Silicon dioxide, SiO/. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodor…

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One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.

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The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

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The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

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A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow…

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