While Tennessee marble is not true marble, its crystalline nature lends it a strong resemblance to marble, especially when polished.

It can easily be confused with a green Duan stone, but can be distinguished by its crystalline nature.

The crystalline nature of the material is transformed by shifting light into amorphous formations which appear to breathe, acquiring a life and vitality of their own.

The crystalline nature of rock candy makes it transparent whereas power sugar from which it was made and has the same sugar molecules is opaque.

The formal Nickel (1995) definition explicitly mentioned crystalline nature as a key to defining a substance as a mineral.

The high mechanical stiffness of these materials was then attributed to the crystalline nature of the bridges between crystallites rather than, as Peterlin proposed, to tie-molecules.

Its low melting point makes guaiazulene difficult to handle, in contrast to the crystalline nature of the parent azulene.

It ranges from a crumbly texture, sometimes extremely oily, to a hard, almost crystalline nature.

One of the theories I've put forth is that the unique crystalline nature of their physiology is a key component to interfacing with their technology.

The crystalline nature of this world makes it impossible to bury anything.