• Kaja's Sparkle Effect Technology combines crystal powders and metallic-coated glitter pearls to reflect light from all angles. (sephora.com)
  • The jelly formula sets in a flash, adding a high-impact sparkle that applies like a gel, dries to a powder, and comes in a range of energetic hues packed with topaz, diamond, and sapphire crystals. (sephora.com)
  • This supremely buildable, bouncy powder highlights the eyes and cheeks with an effect that looks like a veil of crystal sparkle. (sephora.com)
  • Krystallos Ladder cuff bracelet by Rachel Nelson-Smith- Easy to make cuff bracelet using wire and crystal beads for lots of sparkle. (bellaonline.com)
  • Crystals add the extra sparkle you are looking for on your special day! (davidsbridal.com)
  • Topaz Crystal, Diamond Powder, and Sapphire Powder: Provide high reflection. (sephora.com)
  • The Crystal Illusion necklace for example would look amazing in pearls with red and topaz crystals on a gold, brass or copper chain for winter. (bellaonline.com)
  • The Thirteenth Annual International Health Regulations (IHR) Exercise Crystal was held at WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific on 2-3 December 2021. (who.int)
  • The symmetry of a crystal is constrained by the requirement that the unit cells stack perfectly with no gaps. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the oldest techniques in the science of crystallography consists of measuring the three-dimensional orientations of the faces of a crystal, and using them to infer the underlying crystal symmetry. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nematic liquid crystals are described by cylindrical symmetry and are uniaxial, which makes n physically indistinguishable from − n 6 . (nature.com)
  • A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most inorganic solids are not crystals but polycrystals, i.e. many microscopic crystals fused together into a single solid. (wikipedia.org)
  • Halite (table salt, NaCl): Microscopic and macroscopic The scientific definition of a "crystal" is based on the microscopic arrangement of atoms inside it, called the crystal structure. (wikipedia.org)
  • These shape characteristics are not necessary for a crystal-a crystal is scientifically defined by its microscopic atomic arrangement, not its macroscopic shape-but the characteristic macroscopic shape is often present and easy to see. (wikipedia.org)
  • A crystals in urine test is part of a microscopic exam of urine. (medlineplus.gov)
  • While the interest in L-cystine crystals is limited to the biomedical arena, understanding the details of crystal growth, especially the role of defects-or imperfections in crystals-is critical to the advancement of emerging technologies that aim to use organic crystalline materials. (nyu.edu)
  • Scientists in the Molecular Design Institute in the NYU Department of Chemistry have been examining defects in crystals called screw dislocations - features on the surface of a crystal that resemble a spiraled ham. (nyu.edu)
  • We propose that upon cooling from 160 to 140 K, domains of the crystal containing fewer defects stay in the tetragonal phase longer than highly defected domains that readily transform to the high bandgap orthorhombic phase at higher temperatures. (lu.se)
  • As seen under the microscope, monosodium urate (MSU) crystals are long, thin and pointed, and are negatively birefringent. (medscape.com)
  • Lastly, these crystals have been found in other inflammatory arthritides such as rheumatoid arthritis but still have an unknown role. (medscape.com)
  • The researchers focused on L-cystine crystals, the chief component of a particularly nefarious kind of kidney stone. (nyu.edu)
  • But certain types of crystals may stick together and become kidney stones , which are hard, pebble-like pieces of material that form in the kidneys. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Your health care provider may include a crystals in urine test in your urinalysis if you have symptoms of a kidney stone. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Square Enix has announced that the WiiWare version of Crystal Defenders R1 will be released in April, with follow-up game R2's date to be announced later. (eurogamer.net)
  • The Moon Crystal is very lightweight and pigmented as it contains actual crystal powder, it felt like I'm wearing diamonds on my eyelids! (sephora.com)
  • Examples of large crystals include snowflakes, diamonds, and table salt. (wikipedia.org)
  • Narrow spectral holes in rare earth ion crystals not only give a narrow transition spectrum, but also a slow light effect. (lu.se)
  • A normal joint fluid aspirate is negative for any crystals. (medscape.com)
  • Theiler G, Quehenberger F, Rainer F, Neubauer M, Stettin M, Robier C. The detection of calcium pyrophosphate crystals in the synovial fluid of patients with rheumatoid arthritis using the cytospin technique: prevalence and clinical correlation. (medscape.com)
  • Each flower or vibrational essence carries the unique and beautiful energies of a particular flower, gem, crystal, mineral or geometric shape in liquid form. (crystalherbs.com)
  • a very 'pure' form of meth, pure not meaning clean or safe, crystal meth is the farthest thing from clean and safe . (urbandictionary.com)
  • A crystal is a solid where the atoms form a periodic arrangement. (wikipedia.org)
  • The unit cells are stacked in three-dimensional space to form the crystal. (wikipedia.org)
  • These are grouped into 7 crystal systems, such as cubic crystal system (where the crystals may form cubes or rectangular boxes, such as halite shown at right) or hexagonal crystal system (where the crystals may form hexagons, such as ordinary water ice). (wikipedia.org)
  • NYU chemists have discovered crystal growth complexities, which at first glance appeared to confound 50 years of theory and deepened the mystery of how organic crystals form. (nyu.edu)
  • The authors hoped to improve their understanding of how these crystals form and grow in order to design therapeutic agents that inhibit stone formation. (nyu.edu)
  • The so-called BCF theory posited that crystals with one screw dislocation would form hillocks that resembled a spiral staircase while those with two screw dislocations would merge and form a structure similar to a Mayan pyramid-a series of stacked "island" surfaces that are closed off from each other. (nyu.edu)
  • Their results showed exactly the opposite of what BCF theory predicted-crystals with one screw dislocation seemed to form stacked hexagonal "islands" while those with two proximal screw dislocations produced a six-sided spiral staircase. (nyu.edu)
  • Here, we use double emulsions of water droplets inside radial nematic liquid crystal droplets to form various structures, ranging from linear chains to three-dimensional fractal structures. (nature.com)
  • Liquid crystals are anisotropic fluids, in which the rigid and anisotropic constituent molecules have a strong tendency to form mesophases with long-range orientational order, described by the order parameter S . In the simplest and most widely studied liquid crystal phase, the nematic, the molecules are free to move around each other and lack any long range positional order. (nature.com)
  • If you have too many minerals in your urine, certain minerals may clump together with other substances and form solid crystals. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Each contribution should clearly show or mention the experimental work carried out by the participants during the growing of their single crystals (compounds and methods used are free of choice). (iucr.org)
  • New York, NY (September 8, 2022) - A team of Mount Sinai researchers has produced a high-resolution crystal structure of an enzyme essential to the survival of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. (eurekalert.org)
  • Making the discovery possible was the ability of researchers to clear a hurdle that had prevented others in the past from creating three-dimensional crystals of the nsp14 methytransferase domain. (eurekalert.org)
  • Before an electric field is applied, the orientation of the liquid-crystal molecules is determined by the alignment at the surfaces of electrodes. (wikipedia.org)
  • If the applied voltage is large enough, the liquid crystal molecules in the center of the layer are almost completely untwisted and the polarization of the incident light is not rotated as it passes through the liquid crystal layer. (wikipedia.org)
  • The process of crystal formation via mechanisms of crystal growth is called crystallization or solidification. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dislocations were first posed by William Keith Burton, Nicolás Cabrera, and Sir Frederick Charles Frank in the late 1940s as essential for crystal growth. (nyu.edu)
  • A re-examination of these micrographs by Molecular Design Institute scientist Alexander Shtukenberg, in combination with computer simulations, served to refine the actual crystal growth sequence and found that, in fact, BCF theory still held. (nyu.edu)
  • They appeared to contradict 60 years of thinking about crystal growth, but in fact revealed that crystal growth is at once elegant and complex, with hidden features that must be extracted if it is to be understood. (nyu.edu)
  • The aim of the course is that the student, once the course is completed, has aquired knowledge to understand crystal growth and especially semiconductor epitaxy. (lu.se)
  • explain crystal growth and epitaxy and the relevant concepts within thermodynamics and kinetics. (lu.se)
  • 2/4 · evaluate and choose an appropriate crystal growth method for a specific issue. (lu.se)
  • orally and in writing present issues concerning crystal growth in a scientific way. (lu.se)
  • discuss how crystal growth and epitaxy can contribute to a more sustainable society. (lu.se)
  • This course treats the fundamental aspects of crystal growth, e.g. the thermodynamic prerequisites for crystal growth such as chemical potential, construction of binary phase diagrams, supersaturation, and nucleation. (lu.se)
  • The course replaces FYST35 Physics: Crystal Growth and Semiconductor Epitaxy, 7.5 credits, and cannot be counted in a degree together with this course. (lu.se)
  • A liquid-crystal display ( LCD ) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers . (wikipedia.org)
  • Liquid crystals do not emit light directly [1] but instead use a backlight or reflector to produce images in color or monochrome . (wikipedia.org)
  • Without the liquid crystal between the polarizing filters, light passing through the first filter would be blocked by the second (crossed) polarizer. (wikipedia.org)
  • By controlling the voltage applied across the liquid crystal layer in each pixel, light can be allowed to pass through in varying amounts thus constituting different levels of gray. (wikipedia.org)
  • It comes in a range of light-catching shades that are buildable from a sheer, crystal-like shimmer to an opaque, prismatic glitter finish. (sephora.com)
  • Settle on the place before choosing any crystal light is essential. (fotolog.com)
  • The purpose of placing this crystal light is to decorate the home. (fotolog.com)
  • You can enhance your crystal ball portrait by using good light on the model. (digital-photography-school.com)
  • Here we investigate, through femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy and theoretical modeling, the light and sound interaction in a bottom-up fabricated vertical nanowire photonic crystal. (lu.se)
  • The strong dispersion inside the spectral hole will significantly slow down the group velocity of the light traveling in the crystal cavity to a small fraction of its speed in vacuum. (lu.se)
  • It may provide more complete results because the amount of crystals and other substances in urine can vary throughout the day. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Our results enable the design of a photonic crystal with separately tailored photon and phonon dispersion for Brillouin scattering. (lu.se)
  • Literature shows a variety of crystal phase transition temperatures and often a spread of the transition over tens of degrees Kelvin. (lu.se)
  • Spontaneous Interface Healing by a Dynamic Liquid-Crystal Transition for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells. (bvsalud.org)
  • Herein, a new strategy of dynamic liquid-crystal transition (DLCT) is developed to solve these problems in one step. (bvsalud.org)
  • Crystal Cox , a 29-year-old 2004 Olympic gold-medalist track athlete from Durham, NC, had managed to last 35 days in Survivor: Gabon without many major causes for alarm, despite spending a large amount of that time as a member of the competition's sputtering Fang tribe. (realitytvworld.com)
  • It shows what the crystals are made of, how large they are, and how many are in your urine. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Boasting sweeping views of London from its high vantage point, Crystal Palace is home to antique shops, hip cafes and a park filled with the world's oldest dinosaur sculptures. (visitlondon.com)
  • Read Shapa's area guide to Crystal Palace to find out where to rummage for vintage delights and where to feast on brunch and cakes. (visitlondon.com)
  • Easy to reach, Crystal Palace is well connected to Central London, with trains from London Bridge taking just under 30 minutes, so you really have no excuse not to visit! (visitlondon.com)
  • Designer Arne Quinze will present two new pieces at the Swarovski Crystal Palace exhibition in Milan next month. (dezeen.com)
  • For example, when liquid water starts freezing, the phase change begins with small ice crystals that grow until they fuse, forming a polycrystalline structure. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the final block of ice, each of the small crystals (called "crystallites" or "grains") is a true crystal with a periodic arrangement of atoms, but the whole polycrystal does not have a periodic arrangement of atoms, because the periodic pattern is broken at the grain boundaries. (wikipedia.org)
  • A crystal structure (an arrangement of atoms in a crystal) is characterized by its unit cell, a small imaginary box containing one or more atoms in a specific spatial arrangement. (wikipedia.org)
  • The distance from the model to the crystal ball is quite far, so the person appears small in the ball. (digital-photography-school.com)
  • It's normal to have a few small crystals in your urine. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Despite the name, lead crystal, crystal glass, and related products are not crystals, but rather types of glass, i.e. amorphous solids. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, macroscopic single crystals are usually identifiable by their geometrical shape, consisting of flat faces with specific, characteristic orientations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Crystals are commonly recognized, macroscopically, by their shape, consisting of flat faces with sharp angles. (wikipedia.org)
  • Simply Stylish Crystal Jewelry has a focus on crystals in strung designs, some of them using simple wire techniques. (bellaonline.com)
  • Kalmbach Books provided this review copy of Simply Stylish Crystal Jewelry to me free of charge. (bellaonline.com)
  • Crystal Cox was unable to win Survivor gold, and now the track athlete is likely to lose her Olympic gold too. (realitytvworld.com)
  • After 36 days in Gabon, Crystal Cox , a 29-year-old 2004 Olympic gold-medalist track athlete from Durham, NC, became the thirteenth castaway to be eliminated from Survivor: Gabon during last night's broadcast of the CBS reality series. (realitytvworld.com)
  • It's like gold crystals and you don't really see the color much. (sephora.com)
  • The enzyme, known as nsp14, has a crucially important region known as the RNA methyltransferase domain, which has eluded previous attempts by the scientific community to characterize its three-dimensional crystal structure. (eurekalert.org)
  • The Mount Sinai team actually developed three crystal structures of nsp14, each with different cofactors, from which they identified the best scaffold for the design of antivirals for inhibiting the RNA methyltransferase activity that the enzyme enables and the virus needs to survive. (eurekalert.org)
  • There are distinct differences between crystalline solids and amorphous solids: most notably, the process of forming a glass does not release the latent heat of fusion, but forming a crystal does. (wikipedia.org)
  • Crystal chandeliers are brighter due to the transparent glass. (fotolog.com)
  • If we talk about the material of chandeliers, these are usually made of steel, crystal/glass, hand-forged iron, and bronze. (fotolog.com)
  • Printed in full color, the introduction includes basic techniques, an overview of supplies and tools and a nice little timeline about leaded crystal glass. (bellaonline.com)
  • The crystal structures that the team has elucidated have been made available to the public and will now serve as guides for biochemists and virologists globally to engineer these compounds. (eurekalert.org)
  • Discover other properties in Langkawi that offer a similar experience and ambiance to Easy Crystal Hotel. (hotelscombined.com)
  • The aim of the competition is to convey your experience of growing crystals through a video. (iucr.org)
  • This is done by stabilizing a laser to a single crystal silicon Fabry-Pérot resonator at 124 K. The fundamental limit of this type of cavities is the thermal Brownian noise of the mirror coatings and the spacer. (lu.se)
  • The next option for incorporating the crystal ball into your portrait shoot is to include much more of the background, and make the ball a smaller part of the frame. (digital-photography-school.com)
  • These methods include separation by GC coupled with FID and flame photometric detection (FPD), determination by infrared and Raman spectroscopy, separation by ionization mass spectrometry, determination utilizing piezoelectric crystals, and determination by gas-sensitive microsensors. (cdc.gov)
  • Methods used for analyzing diisopropyl methylphospbonate in air include real-time analyses utilizing interdigitated gate electrode-field effect transistors (IGEFET), coated and uncoated piezoelectric crystal detectors, gas chromatographs, and mass spectrometers. (cdc.gov)
  • Their properties are dependent on the crystal structure. (lu.se)
  • Learn with Johanna in this movie from Quidos about how to grow a single crystal. (iucr.org)
  • The equipment is used for measuring single crystal diffraction data for phase identification, alignement or structure solution of unknown materials. (lu.se)
  • After uttering a slew of jokes about Tuesday's Republican presidential debate, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon made sure to play the role of equal opportunity offender during Wednesday's monologue by teaming with comedian Billy Crystal to mock Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for being "so old" (in borrowing a bit often employed in the Jay Leno days). (newsbusters.org)
  • In other words, while the crystals' physical appearance seemed at odds with the long-standing theory, they actually did grow in a manner predicted decades ago. (nyu.edu)
  • Fig. Y 2 SiO 5 crystal cavity (6 mm long) transmission spectrum (red trace), absorption spectrum (black trace) and refractive index spectrum (blue trace) around an 18 MHz spectral hole. (lu.se)
  • Therefore, the flat surfaces tend to grow larger and smoother, until the whole crystal surface consists of these plane surfaces. (wikipedia.org)
  • Located within the scenic parkland of Pantai Cenang, Hotel Easy Crystal provides comfortable accommodation and a full range of facilities, including free Wi-Fi, an express check-in and check-out featu. (hotelscombined.com)
  • The winners of the 2018 edition of the IUCr Crystal growing competition will be those who most successfully convey their experiences to the panel of judges in a video report. (iucr.org)
  • Vintage & Antique Dinnerware, Crystal, Silver & more. (etsy.com)
  • The Aero Club of Northern California invites you to the annual Crystal Eagle Award Dinner honoring Steve Hinton, Reno Racer and former world speed record for piston-driven aircraft. (constantcontact.com)
  • Fairview Crystal Springs is a modern wedding venue in Burlingame, California, just 20 minutes away from San Francisco. (weddingwire.com)
  • More than 4 decades of research have "clearly demonstrated that social isolation and loneliness are both associated with adverse health outcomes," writing group chair Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, University of California San Diego Health, says in a news release. (medscape.com)
  • Welcome to Crystal Herbs - we offer a wonderful range of Flower Essences, Bach Flower Remedies and Gem & Crystal Essences, along with help and support for your personal journey. (crystalherbs.com)
  • Currently, crystal chandeliers are provided in a wide range. (fotolog.com)
  • Vishay's frequency control product line offers a complete range of crystals and oscillators. (vishay.com)
  • Discover essential information, amenities, and features of Easy Crystal Hotel, providing insights into what to expect during your stay. (hotelscombined.com)
  • There are 219 possible crystal symmetries (230 is commonly cited, but this treats chiral equivalents as separate entities), called crystallographic space groups. (wikipedia.org)