crystallize
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkɹɪstəlaɪz/
crystallize (crystallizes, present participle crystallizing; past and past participle crystallized)
- (transitive, chemistry, physics) to make something form into crystals
- I crystallized the copper sulphate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.
- (intransitive) to assume a crystalline form
- The copper sulphate crystallized from solution.
- (transitive) to give something a definite or precise form
- After some thought, I crystallized my ideas for the paper.
- (intransitive) to take a definite form
- My ideas crystallized overnight.
- (transitive) to coat something with crystals, especially with sugar
- We crystallized the fruit by coating in sugar.
- French: cristalliser
- German: kristallisieren
- Portuguese: cristalizar
- Russian: кристаллизова́ть
- French: cristalliser
- Portuguese: cristalizar-se
- Russian: кристаллизова́ться
- French: cristalliser
- Portuguese: cristalizar
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