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Culmination vs Crystallization - What's the difference?

culmination | crystallization |

As nouns the difference between culmination and crystallization

is that culmination is (astronomy) the attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit while crystallization is (uncountable) the act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

culmination

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
  • Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    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