Although high-quality single-crystal silicon may be the best-known material for making electronic components, it isn’t the only one—and it’s not the only one being teased into different shapes.

虽然高品质的单晶硅可能是制造电子元件最知名的材料，但它却不是唯一的材料，也不是唯一一个可以用来加工成不同形状的材料。

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"The center of the earth is literally a crystal," said Stephenson. Over time, it grew and now is no longer a single crystal but an aggregate of them.

“地球的中心严格意义上是一个晶体，”斯蒂文森说，它逐渐成长，现在已不是一个单晶，而是众多单晶的组合体。

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Under very high pressure, the samples switched from their amorphous, glassy state to form a single crystal -- the first time this behavior has been seen in a glass. The discovery.

在非常高的压力下，样品从无定形的、玻璃态转化成为单晶——这是第一次在玻璃中发现这种行为。

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There is no way that you could irradiate a crystal of nickel with a single beam of x-rays and get that circular ring pattern if the electron beam were behaving as a particle beam only.

没有什么其他的途径,可以让镍晶体发射,单束X光来,继而得到环状图案,如果电子束,是以粒子束形式出现的。

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And "power" is a relative term, since technically there's no electricity coursing through the single-crystal panels.

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But crystal fibres push the range of single-mode wavelengths right into the visible part of the spectrum, opening up huge new tracts of wavelength for telecommunications.

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Indeed, one would have to possess one heck of a crystal ball to know when the nation will finally find itself with no choice but to adopt a single-payer system because the private insurers will no longer find it worth their while to remain in the business.

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