Definition of "crystallizing" [crystallizing]

• Present participle of crystallize. (verb)

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• "Two years later a definitive breakthrough took place as Michel succeeded in crystallizing the reaction center from the photosynthetic bacterium"
• "Our knowledge about photosynthesis, respiration and other membrane-associated processes is limited due to the lack of information about the molecular organization of the membrane proteins involved, a problem which derives from difficulties in crystallizing these proteins."
• "As the water is subsequently moved through the other pond stages, other impurities preciptate out and 95 percent of the water is eventually evaporated before the water is moved into the final ponds (referred to as the crystallizing ponds) where the sodium chloride precipitates out at about 40 acre (90 tonnes per hectometre) and is then mechanically harvested."