It causes plastic deformation of the individual crystals and in the end the material itself.

The individual crystals are usually smaller than 0.1 mm and many of them are intergrown.

Sometimes the balls are coarse enough to allow the individual crystals to be seen.

However, modification of these faces is common, and individual crystal faces may have many more than three edges.

It can apply to an individual crystal or an assembly of crystals.

The individual crystals never have perfect form, and indeed traces of it area rare.

However, if density is increased to the extent that individual crystals are crushed, the explosive may become more sensitive.

A xenocryst is an individual foreign crystal included within an igneous body.

They are often very coarse-grained, containing individual crystals which may be several inches in length.

Different parts of the base, perhaps individual "crystals," sometimes whole areas, would pulse and change color in time to the noises.