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• a  consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals
  granite is crystalline
• s  distinctly or sharply outlined
  crystalline sharpness of outline"- John Buchan
• s  transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  the cold crystalline water of melted snow

• The mercury in amalgam, it turns out, is not free, but mixed with silver, tin and copper, metals to which it bonds chemically to form a crystalline metallic and safe alloy.
• Their country has an overabundance of coca leaves, from which the white-crystalline-powdered drug is refined.
• At the flower-strewn steps, the mood of the civil rights rebellion of the 1960s was evoked as the crystalline voice of Folk Singer Joan Baez led the assembled marchers in the .

• crystal clear
• limpid
• lucid
• pellucid
• transparent

• noncrystalline

News & Articles

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• SolarWorld Urges Industry to Respond to Reports of Rising Solar-Panel Defect Rates
  Today, SolarWorld called on the world solar industry to establish, embrace and promote an industry-wide acceptable quality limit for production of crystalline silicon solar panels sold within the U.S.
  June 13, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Art spotlight: Glass at the Swedish Institute
  Swedish glass art, part of exhibint at Swedish Institute, "Pull, Twist, Blow." Opens Saturday: Famous for their elegant hand-blown goblets and other tableware, Swedish glass artists are experimenting with new forms of crystalline fantasy.
  June 13, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Breathtaking Colorful Beaches
  Sure, white sand and crystalline waters are great, but beaches can come in all shades of the rainbow. We've added these 12 waterfronts to our travel bucket lists...
  June 11, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Lord Norman Foster in Buzzle
  The crystalline top of the tower bows down to the memorial park commemorating the tragic events that unfolded here,said Lord Foster. "But it is also a powerful symbol of hope for the future."
• Robert Menendez in The Tennessean
  Thank you for your incredible leadership; you make this crystalline for those who don't either understand it or want to understand it,gushed Sen. Bob Menendez, DN.J., who went on to ask: "Will you join me this summer at the Jersey Shore?"
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg in New York Times
  I would accord more respectful treatment to the proceedings and disposition of state courts that sought diligently to adhere to our changing, less than crystalline precedent,Justice Ginsburg said in an opinion that Justices Scalia and Thomas...