A crystal or crystals.
Latin crystallum, crystal, from Greek krustallos, ice, crystal.
Crystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals; metamorphic rocks can have a crystalloblastic structure (Greek blastos, germ, sprout) caused by crystals grown in the solid medium; the protein crystallin is present in the lens of the eye.
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