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Crystallization vs Suspension - What's the difference?

crystallization | suspension |

As nouns the difference between crystallization and suspension

is that crystallization is (uncountable) the act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized while suspension is suspension (of solid particles in a liquid).

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

    suspension

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
    • suspension from a hook
  • A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
    • suspension from school as a disciplinary measure
  • The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
  • The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
  • The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car, which allow the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
  • (Scots Law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
  • (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
  • (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
  • (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function's.
  • (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds by means of punishment.

    • Synonyms

    * delay, interruption, intermission, stop

    Derived terms

    * *

    Related terms

    * pleas in suspension * points of suspension * suspension bridge * suspension of arms * suspension scale