crystallography
noun
crys·tal·log·ra·phy
ˌkri-stə-ˈlä-grə-fē 
: a science that deals with the forms and structures of crystals
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Galen Erso is taken by the Empire Orson Krennic captures scientist Galen Erso, an expert in crystallography, to use kyber crystals in the construction of the Death Star.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025
Transformers made a huge impact in life sciences with Deep Mind's AlphaFold, a groundbreaking way to predict protein structures based on amino acid sequences (something not text) in minutes, a task that previously took scientists months in the labs via X-ray crystallography.
—Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
To identify the actual structures, researchers typically turn to x-ray crystallography.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 1 Aug. 2024
Before 2016, the only way to determine the shape of a protein was through X-ray crystallography, a laboratory technique that uses the diffraction of X-rays by single crystals to determine the precise arrangement of atoms and molecules in three dimensions in a molecule.
—Marc Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025
Transformers made a huge impact in life sciences with Deep Mind's AlphaFold, a groundbreaking way to predict protein structures based on amino acid sequences (something not text) in minutes, a task that previously took scientists months in the labs via X-ray crystallography.
—Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
To identify the actual structures, researchers typically turn to x-ray crystallography.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 1 Aug. 2024
Before 2016, the only way to determine the shape of a protein was through X-ray crystallography, a laboratory technique that uses the diffraction of X-rays by single crystals to determine the precise arrangement of atoms and molecules in three dimensions in a molecule.
—Marc Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
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“Crystallography.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crystallography. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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crystallography
noun
crys·tal·log·ra·phy
ˌkris-tə-ˈläg-rə-fē
: a science that deals with the form and structure of crystals
Medical Definition
crystallography
noun
crys·tal·log·ra·phy
ˌkris-tə-ˈläg-rə-fē
plural crystallographies
: a science that deals with the forms and structures of crystals see x-ray crystallography
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