Concretion vs Crystallization - What's the difference?
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The process of aggregating]] or [[coalesce, coalescing into a mass.
A solid, hard mass formed by a process of aggregation or coalescence.
(petrology) A rounded mass of a mineral, sometimes found in sedimentary rock or on the ocean floor.
* 1844 , , Geological Observations on South America , ch. 5,
The action of making something concrete or the result of such an action.
* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 14,
(uncountable) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
(countable) The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.
(uncountable, physics, chemistry) The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase
(countable) The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.
As nouns the difference between concretion and crystallization
is that concretion is the process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass while crystallization is the act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.concretion
English
(wikipedia concretion)Noun
(en noun)- Of the three beds, the central one is the most compact, and more like ordinary sandstone: it includes numerous flattened spherical concretions .
- "My new statue!" said Kenyon. . . . "It is the concretion of a good deal of thought, emotion, and toil of brain and hand."