crystallization

English

Alternative forms

• crystallisation (UK)

Etymology

From crystal +‎ -ization.

Pronunciation

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Noun

crystallization (countable and uncountable, plural crystallizations)

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

   Silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.

3. The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase
4. The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.

Derived terms

• anticrystallization
• biocrystallization
• cocrystallization
• cryptocrystallization
• decrystallization
• fractional crystallization
• nanocrystallization
• post-crystallization
• precrystallization
• recrystallization
• water of crystallization

 

Translations

the act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal

• Bulgarian: кристализация (kristalizacija)
• Catalan: cristal·lització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結晶作用 / 结晶作用

• Czech: krystalizace f
• Finnish: kiteytyminen
• French: cristallisation (fr) f
• German: Kristallisation (de) f
• Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) f (krystállosi)
• Irish: criostalú m
• Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f
• Kazakh: кристалдану (kristaldanu)
• Malay: penghabluran, pengkristalan, kristalisasi
• Portuguese: cristalização (pt) f
• Romanian: cristalizare (ro) f, cristalizație (ro) f
• Russian: кристаллиза́ция (ru) f (kristallizácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кристализа́ција f

  Roman: kristalizácija (sh) f

• Spanish: cristalización f
• Swedish: kristallisation (sv) c, kristallisering (sv) c
• Tagalog: sabubog

the body formed by crystallizing

• Finnish: kiteymä
• Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) f (krystállosi)
• Irish: criostalúchán m
• Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f
• Malay: habluran
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кристализа́ција f

  Roman: kristalizácija (sh) f

formation of a solid from a solution

• Finnish: kiteytyminen
• Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) f (krystállosi)
• Irish: criostalú m
• Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f
• Malay: penghabluran, pengkristalan, kristalisasi
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кристализа́ција f

  Roman: kristalizácija (sh) f

• Tagalog: sabubog

process or the result of becoming more definite or precise

• Finnish: kiteyttäminen (fi) (process), kiteytys (fi) (result)

Further reading

• crystallization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia