Sentence examples for transparent crystal from inspiring English sources

A diamond is a transparent crystal of tetrahedrally bonded carbon atoms in a covalent network lattice (sp3) that crystallizes into the diamond lattice which is a variation of the face centered cubic structure.

And then the air grew transparent, crystal clear.

Sapphire is a super-hard form of optically transparent crystal that looks and behaves like glass or diamond.

Houdin originally achieved his see-through effect by using transparent crystal discs with serrated edges on which the hands were fixed.

"It would never hold the feet if it were not for the plastic," said Mr. Frisoni, who also showed off a different, transparent crystal sandal with black feathers.

One of their innovations was Graal glass, in which coloured relief decorations were encased in a layer of colourless, transparent crystal to produce a smooth surface.

In this past, I thought of my sex work as a flaw, an occlusion in an otherwise transparent quartz crystal.

Protruding from a boulder was a transparent crystal-like chunk.

Clinoptilolite is somewhat soft and forms platy, nearly transparent crystals of monoclinic symmetry.

Sanidine forms colourless or white, glassy, transparent crystals in acidic volcanic rocks.

Similarly, solid-state lasers may use semiconductors or transparent crystals with small concentrations of light-emitting atoms.