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Crystallinity vs Crystallization - What's the difference?

crystallinity | crystallization |

In uncountable terms the difference between crystallinity and crystallization

is that crystallinity is the condition of being crystalline while crystallization is the act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

In countable terms the difference between crystallinity and crystallization

is that crystallinity is the degree to which a material (e.g. a polymer or a rock) is crystalline while crystallization is the process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.

crystallinity

English

Noun

(wikipedia crystallinity)
  • (uncountable) The condition of being crystalline
  • (countable) The degree to which a material (e.g. a polymer or a rock) is crystalline

    • crystallization

    English

    (wikipedia crystallization)

    Alternative forms

    * (UK) crystallisation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * fractional crystallization * water of crystallization