crystallizablecrystalizablecrystallisableadj.

1765 W. Lewis New Dispensatory (ed. 2) iii. viii. 479/1 Nor is it perhaps in the pure crystallizable parts of the milk, that its medicinal virtues lie.

1817 Amer. Reg. 1 440/1 M. Methuon gives a history of his discovery of such chrystals gradually formed from chrystallizable matter.

1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xiv. 144 All crystallizable substances (called crystalloids) can pass in solution through the parchment paper.

1877 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 72 461/1 Professor Voelcker finds sewerage-grown beet to yield a much greater percentage of chrystallisable sugar than any other.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. iii. 31 A liquid such as ether might be described as volatile, inflammable, lighter than water,..and not crystallisable even by severe cold.

2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. ii. 39 A ‘stereoactive’ polymerisation catalyst..was able to polymerise ethylene to yield crystallisable (‘high-density’) polyethylene.

1789 W. Nicholson tr. A. F. de Fourcroy Suppl. to Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. 275 The mildness and crystallizability of these substances, was owing to this elastic fluid.

1854 B. Powell Pereira's Lect. Polarized Light (ed. 2) 276 When..subjected to heat..it loses its crystallizability.

1951 H. Fraenkel-Conrat in D. M. Greenberg Amino Acids & Proteins ix. 537 The criteria of the denatured state are usually listed as a loss in the solubility, crystallizability, and biological activity, and an increase in chemical reactivity of certain groups.

2006 G. Rhodes Crystallogr. made Crystal Clear (ed. 3) iii. 45 The potential crystallizability of a newly purified protein.