Marie Curie

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

Polish Scientist

John Updike

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

American Novelist

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

American Architect

Louis MacNeice

All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

British Poet

Used in scientific discussions, often about natural processes or experiments.

Scientific Context

Can evoke a visual image of something becoming solid.

Descriptive Imagery

Occurs under specific conditions like cooling or evaporation.

Specific Conditions

Often used metaphorically to describe ideas or plans becoming clear.

Metaphorical Use

Used for intangible elements like thoughts, ideas, or plans.

Abstract Concepts

In a lab, signifies purifying substances or distinguishing components.

Chemical Purity

Accuracy in chemistry when separating mixtures or defining substances.

Precision in Chemistry

Refers to rock formation through natural processes below Earth's surface.

Geological Formations

Can relate to understanding volcanic activity and resulting rock types.

Volcanic Activity

 crystallization of the dream I'd set off not knowing a soul and for me the prospect that there were six thousand miles ahead where no one knew I existed knowing who I was coming that's what drove me in many ways to do this journey for me the the measure of this journey was much more in the friendships that I

Tim Cope: On the Trail...

 which led to two more feuding scientists. Thus, from teeth gunk to torquing off Newton, crystallization to Schwann cells, the cell theory came to be an important part of biology today. Some things we know about science today may seem boring,

The wacky history of...

 then why aren't shells infinite in size? What stops the scaling? Why don't they just keep on going? And I said, well, in the same way that they exude a protein and it starts the crystallization --

Crystallization