Crystallizes vs Crystallized - What's the difference?
crystallizes | crystallized |
(crystallize)
(transitive, chemistry, physics) to make something form into crystals
to assume a crystalline form
to give something a definite or precise form
to take a definite form
to coat something with crystals, especially with sugar
having definitive and fixed form, solidified.
being crystalline, in the form of crystals.
(crystallize)
As verbs the difference between crystallizes and crystallized
is that crystallizes is (crystallize) while crystallized is (crystallize).As an adjective crystallized is
having definitive and fixed form, solidified.crystallizes
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Verb
(head)crystallize
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Alternative forms
* crystalize * (non-Oxford British spelling) crystallise, crystaliseVerb
(crystalliz)- I crystallized the copper sulphate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.
- The copper sulphate crystallized from solution.
- After some thought, I crystallized my ideas for the paper.
- My ideas crystallized overnight.
- We crystallized the fruit by coating in sugar.