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Six example sentences with crystalline, each labelled with its topic.
Salt flats stretch for miles here, a crystalline plain that crunches like sugar under every single step.
Travel
Honey left in a cold cupboard turns crystalline, and gentle warming in a water bath makes it pour again.
Cooking
Cooling the melt slowly gives a crystalline solid with visible facets; quenching it fast gives glass instead.
Science
Solar panels built from crystalline silicon cost more than the thin-film kind but squeeze more power from the same roof.
Technology
The doctor explained that crystalline deposits in the big toe joint were behind the sudden overnight pain.
Medicine
The potter's crystalline glaze grows star-shaped patterns in the kiln, and no two bowls ever come out alike.
Art
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