crystallization

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

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