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crystallize (v.): 1590s, from crystal + -ize. Figurative use is from 1660s. Related: Crystallized; crystallizing.
recrystallize (v.): also re-crystallize, 1774, from re- + crystallize. Related: Recrystallized; recrystallizing.
microlite: " Mineralogy . Any of a subgroup of minerals of the pyrochlore group, found in various pegmatites, that are complex oxides of tantalum and niobium with sodium and calcium, often with small amounts of other elements such as uranium and titanium, crystallizing in the cubic system as yellow, brownish, or blackish translucent crystals", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Charles Shepard (1804–1886). From micro- + -lite. In sense 1 so named from the smallness of the crystals in which it was first found.
leucite: "A potassium aluminosilicate mineral, crystallizing in the tetrahedral system and typically found as grey or white glassy trapezohedra in volcanic rocks", Late 18th century: from Greek leukos 'white' + -ite¹.