crystallization

crystallization

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) crystallisation

Etymology

crystal +‎ -ization

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

• fractional crystallization
• 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 Czech: krystalizace f Finnish: kiteytyminen French: cristallisation (fr) f German: Kristallisation (de) f Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) f (krystállosi) Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f

Malay: penghabluran, pengkristalan, kristalisasi Portuguese: cristalização (pt) f Romanian: cristalizare (ro) f, cristalizație (ro) f Russian: кристаллиза́ция (ru) f (kristallizácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кристализација f Roman: kristalizacija (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) Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f Malay: habluran

Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кристализација f Roman: kristalizacija (sh) f

formation of a solid from a solution

Finnish: kiteytyminen Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) f (krystállosi) Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f Malay: penghabluran, pengkristalan, kristalisasi

Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кристализација f Roman: kristalizacija (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