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- noun Plural form of
crystal .
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Examples
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Or are they, as was so generally maintained in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, mere figured stones, portions of mineral matter which have assumed the forms of leaves and shells and bones, just as those portions of mineral matter which we call crystals take on the form of regular geometrical solids?
The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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WHO's regional food safety expert Anthony Hazzard told Reuters Tuesday: "We believe at this stage that it's really the complex of melamine and cyanuric acid forming what you call crystals ... they can form in the small tubules [in the kidneys] and they get bigger and can block the tubules."
KCTV5.com - News 2008
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Wearing a sheer jumpsuit encrusted in crystals, Gaga joined Ono at the Orpheum for the 'We Are Plastic Ono Band' concert.
Lady Gaga Performs With Yoko Ono, Wears Sheer Jumpsuit (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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It says it will preserve batery life by charging and maintaining batteries with random frequency electronic pulses that are supposed to remove damaging sulfate crystals from the lead plates inside batteries.
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Wearing a sheer jumpsuit encrusted in crystals, Gaga joined Ono at the Orpheum for the 'We Are Plastic Ono Band' concert.
Lady Gaga Performs With Yoko Ono, Wears Sheer Jumpsuit (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Wearing a sheer jumpsuit encrusted in crystals, Gaga joined Ono at the Orpheum for the 'We Are Plastic Ono Band' concert.
Lady Gaga Performs With Yoko Ono, Wears Sheer Jumpsuit (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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A smaller pinch, and perhaps a more careful distribution of the salt crystals, is best.
Salted White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies | Baking Bites 2009
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It says it will preserve batery life by charging and maintaining batteries with random frequency electronic pulses that are supposed to remove damaging sulfate crystals from the lead plates inside batteries.
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The dots in the background are crystals from the glaze.
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The dots in the background are crystals from the glaze.
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