crystallization

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Alternative forms

• (UK) crystallisation

Noun

crystallization (plural crystallizations)

1. (uncountable) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
2. (countable) The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.
3. (uncountable, physics, chemistry) The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase
4. (countable) The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.

Translations

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

• Bulgarian: кристализация (bg) (kristalizacija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結晶作用 (cmn)

• Czech: krystalizace (cs) f
• French: cristallisation (fr) f
• German: Kristallisation (de) f
• Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) (krystállosi) f 

• Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f
• Romanian: cristalizare (ro) f, cristalizație (ro) f
• Russian: кристаллизация (ru) (kristallizácija) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кристализација (sh) f

  Roman: kristalizacija (sh) f

• Spanish: cristalización (es) f
• Swedish: kristallisation (sv) c

the body formed by crystallizing

• Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) (krystállosi) f 
• Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кристализација (sh) f

  Roman: kristalizacija (sh) f

the formation of a solid from a solution

• Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) (krystállosi) f 
• Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кристализација (sh) f

  Roman: kristalizacija (sh) f

Derived terms

• fractional crystallization
• water of crystallization