1 (of a substance) to turn into a crystal or crystals --
2 to sell an investment at a particular time and make a profit or loss from that investment: --
Diffusion of dissolved gas from the crystallizing zone is slow and, as a result, the local melt becomes supersaturated and gas bubbles desorb.
In the spring, the hardhats' dramatic support crystallized the new focus.
Five dissimilar cases plus some bodily traits quickly crystallized into a stereotype.
Finally, the author's elaborate writing is continually crystallized in summative statements that facilitate reading.
In this case it is possible that the quartzofeldspathic streaks may have crystallized from melts, which were generated during the peak of metamorphism.
Anorthosites are also thought to have crystallized from dry melts, because of their anhydrous mafic mineralogy.
The solution crystallizes into a convention, and conventions of this kind constitute the notion of fairness held by a society.
My own have crystallized somewhat during recent years.
