It is known to be a precursor of more crystalline minerals like hematite and goethite by aggregation-based crystal growth.
Dilithium is depicted as an extremely hard crystalline mineral that occurs naturally on some planets.
Spar is a general term for transparent to translucent, generally light-colored and vitreous crystalline minerals.
And there was some form of crystalline mineral in the composite, too.
Interestingly, the vital organisms through which these crystalline minerals form are capable of consistently producing intricately complex structures.
Granite is magma that slowly cooled underground into a hodgepodge of crystalline minerals.
Abhurite is a colorless crystalline mineral that forms on ship-wrecked tin ingots (nuggets).
It gets its name from its most important component, known as a crystal detector, originally made with a piece of crystalline mineral such as galena.
But protein structures were far less amenable to this technique than the crystalline minerals of his former work.
Danburite is a crystalline mineral similar to topaz.