And although these rocks weren't single gems, there was a vast, crystalline order to them.
There was a crystalline order to cold that appealed to him as well.
In the specific case of crystallography, an amorphic material is one that lacks long range (significant) crystalline order at the molecular level.
However, a polymer sample is rarely completely crystalline and the properties also depend on the amount of crystalline order.
Surface freezing is the appearance of long-range crystalline order in a near-surface layer of a liquid.
The crystalline mathematical order of physics led to riots of incandescence.
A crystalline order emerged from the muddle that is life.
However, cold work destroys much of the crystalline order, and the new crystallites that arise with annealing usually have a different texture.
Chaos also gives rise to a crystalline order under more familiar circumstances.
Interstellar dust is composed of glassy materials with no crystalline order.