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- adjective crystallography Describing the components of a
twinned crystal that have beenseparated .
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Examples
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In 2009, Alec Hayton, mayor of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was so upset by the lack of interest of his counterpart in Luxueilles-nains, France, in their twinning arrangement that he asked to be detwinned.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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In 2009, Alec Hayton, mayor of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was so upset by the lack of interest of his counterpart in Luxueilles-nains, France, in their twinning arrangement that he asked to be detwinned.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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In 2009, Alec Hayton, mayor of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was so upset by the lack of interest of his counterpart in Luxueilles-nains, France, in their twinning arrangement that he asked to be detwinned.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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In 2009, Alec Hayton, mayor of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was so upset by the lack of interest of his counterpart in Luxueilles-nains, France, in their twinning arrangement that he asked to be detwinned.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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In 2009, Alec Hayton, mayor of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was so upset by the lack of interest of his counterpart in Luxueilles-nains, France, in their twinning arrangement that he asked to be detwinned.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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