Crystallization vs Precipitation - What's the difference?
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(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.
(meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
A hurried headlong fall.
(countable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
(figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
As nouns the difference between crystallization and precipitation
is that crystallization is the act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized while precipitation is any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.crystallization
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(wikipedia crystallization)Alternative forms
* (UK) crystallisationNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* fractional crystallization * water of crystallizationprecipitation
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- had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase --