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crystal + -ize

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Plain form
crystallize

Third-person singular
crystallizes

Past tense
crystallized

Past participle
crystallized

Present participle
crystallizing

  1. (transitive) (chemistry) (physics) If you crystallize something, you make it into the form of crystals.
    I crystallized the copper sulphate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.
  2. (intransitive) If something crystallizes, it changes into a crystalline form.
    The copper sulphate crystallized from solution.
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