In the torch's beam the water was like solid crystal.
High blood levels of uric acid in the body can cause solid crystals to form within joints.
The barrels were not hollow, but of a solid green crystal.
There must be twenty feet of solid crystal between us and that box!
This is because molten magma can hold water, but the solid crystals cannot.
However, the degree of order is somewhat less than that of a regular solid crystal.
But how do you get the "tiny" solid crystal in the first place for the rest of the salt to deposit onto?
Snow is made when temperatures are so cold that water vapor changes directly to solid crystals.
It can be found as gas, liquid, or even solid crystals.
In zone refining, part of a solid crystal is melted.