There are times when the water does not have enough energy to move the molecules into the crystalline arrangement before the temperature of the water drops lower.

The potential energy of the crystalline arrangement was lower than the potential energy of the random, relaxed arrangement.

The kind that appealed to Cirocco looked like glass sculpture, with straight, transparent trunks and regular branches in a crystalline arrangement.

The different crystals, or polymorphs, are made of the same molecules but in different crystalline arrangements.

Instead it's a chance for two clear-voiced sopranos to harmonize on lovelorn Celtic-rooted songs in crystalline arrangements.

His series of suspended arrays includes room-filling three-dimensional crystalline arrangements of magnetic spheres each of which orient to Earth's terrestrial field in the manner of a compass.

It is guided through 90o by the twist in the nematic crystalline arrangement adopted because of van der Waals forces between the LC molecules.

In single crystals, the effects of the crystalline arrangement of atoms is often easy to see macroscopically, because the natural shapes of crystals reflect the atomic structure.

Thus, they begin to take on an orderly crystalline arrangement that we recognize as ice.

It was clearly a mixture of different substances and different crystalline arrangements of substances that were otherwise chemically the same.