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And certain crystals, like turquoise, don’t grow into any discernible geometric shape in most environmental conditions, even given adequate space.
In the tropics, raindrops are not formed from ice crystals, which is the case in the temperate zones, you need the trees with [unclear], chemicals that come out of the leaves of the trees that initiate the raindrops.
The bacteria produce
crystals
that form around each grain of sand, locking together all the loose particles to form a solid brick.
And the tiny water
crystals
here now look for all the world like they are frozen droplets of salty water, which is a discovery that suggests that not only do the jets come from pockets of liquid water, but that that liquid water is in contact with rock.
Overnight, four young apprentices broke into the temple’s inner chamber to steal the sacred element
crystals.
With no idea how to control the crystals’ vast powers, they’ll soon transform into uncontrollable elemental spirits.
You manage to get them all in the proper containment fields just as the crystals’ magic begins to manifest.
What
crystals
are possible, we can understand through the mathematics of symmetry.
And it came down to something called gout, which, as a result of kidney breakdown is actually uric acid
crystals
throughout the body, and worse in the joints, which made the gharial unable to swim.
Because the lowly abalone is able to lay down the calcium carbonate
crystals
in layers, making this beautiful, iridescent mother of pearl.
Ten times a day, they extract the 10-foot long cylinder of compressed ice
crystals
that contain the unsullied air and trace chemicals laid down by snow, season after season for thousands of years.
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things, like
crystals
and rocks, are really almost entirely composed of empty space.
But
Crystals'
s character is not written very well.
This movie pulls the adventure genre into a unique centrifugal magical force of fantasy unto thee mystical
crystals
of chalice.
McCoy treats him for a head injury, and even though he is clearly unbalanced and dangerous, turns him loose to wander the ship and steal a couple of dilithium
crystals.
A mega dose of x-rays brings the mummy to life, and it begins its search for some
crystals
that were removed from the sarcophagus.
'Save the crystals, save the world' was already getting old in the video game series by this point, and it felt like an attempt to milk something popular.
In the future the world has been depleted to an incredibly cheap movie set, where bionic meat-heads live to beat each other up, whether it be in gladiator combat or priceless
crystals
which look like something you could buy at a garage sale.
When a dorky jerk discovers a handful of
crystals
inside the sarcophagus, he decides to steal them for money.
Unfortunately, the mummy wakes up and goes looking for his crystals, which have been spread all over campus in the form of bracelets and necklaces.
Turns out the mummy is an alien, and he needs those
crystals
to get back to his own planet.
Although Max von Laue, Walter Friedrich, and Paul Knipping had discovered the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, it was Lawrence Bragg who understood how it could be exploited scientifically.
Bernal's main scientific interest was initially the atomic structure of crystals, metals, and minerals, then of hormones and sterols--and of some amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
Describing his unsuccessful attempts to obtain well-ordered X-ray diffraction patterns from
crystals
of the protein pepsin, he wondered whether Bernal could help obtain
crystals
of other proteins.
A friend of Bernal's named Glenn Millikan had happened to visit a lab in Uppsala, Sweden, where large pepsin
crystals
had been obtained, and he brought some of the crystals, still in their mother-liquor, back to Cambridge.
Bernal and Dorothy Crowfoot (later Hodgkin) obtained patterns of the dry crystals, as Astbury had, and with similarly disappointing results.
But when Bernal observed the
crystals
in a light microscope, he noticed that as the large amount of water in the crystal lattice evaporated, they became disordered.
The next year, he was given excellent hemoglobin
crystals
and soon produced the best X-ray diffraction patterns to date.
In 1995, the cosmologist Carl Sagan expressed concern about the trend toward a society in which, “clutching our
crystals
and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline…we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.”
Indeed, while people are entitled to believe in horoscopes, trust in
crystals
to bring good luck, or buy into quack medicine, such “junk science” becomes a serious threat to society when it is allowed to influence public policy.
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