Ice is crystalline, and so are diamonds, and salt.

冰、钻石、还有盐，都是晶体。

But crystalline sugar remained rare until around 500 AD.

但直到公元 500 年左右，结晶糖仍很少见。

Eventually the enamel-building cell dies off, leaving a long crystalline rod behind.

终造釉细胞死亡，留下了长长的透明结晶体。

The ammonia gives way to crystalline hydrocarbons...and breathable air to organics.

氨气也转成结晶性烃和可供有机体呼吸的空气。

This is not like crystalline ice, where it's a very compact ordered structure.

这种水冰不像结晶冰——结晶冰的结构非常紧凑有序。

But he wrote about that too, in poignant, crystalline vignettes about his upbringing and travels.

但他也同样这样写过这些，就写在些关于教训和人生旅行的辛酸和水晶般的小拼图中。

And in between those crystalline nanowires, Joester and his colleagues discovered a sort of amorphous glue.

而在这些晶状纳米线中，乔斯特尔和同事们发现了一种非固定形状的胶质。

In that pure form, caffeine is a white crystalline powder that has a pretty bitter taste.

在这种纯形态下，咖啡因是一种白色结晶状粉末，味道相当苦。

It actually has six different crystalline structures it can take on when it melts and then solidifies.

当它后再固时，可以形成6种不同的晶体结构。

The magnetic field of the star penetrates this crystalline crust and stretches out for quite a distance.

恒星的磁场穿透这层水晶状的地壳，向外延伸相当远的距离。

Some of the highest value materials in solar panels are copper, silver, aluminum, glass, and crystalline silicon.

太阳能电池板中价值高的材料有铜、银、铝、玻璃和晶体硅。

To manufacture these integrated circuits, the transistors are built up layer by layer, on a pure crystalline silicon wafer.

为了制造这些集成电路，晶体管需要在纯晶体硅片上一层一层地组装起来。

Most metals have a crystalline structure, the atoms are ordered into a specific, repeated pattern that makes it stiff.

大多数金属拥有一个晶体结构，原子排列于特定的重复的模式，使之坚硬。

This makes ice a crystalline solid with water molecules bonded together basically trapped in a very consistent repeated pattern.

这使得冰成为结晶固体，水分子键合在一起，基本上以非常一致的重复模式被困住。

Here's how spiders do it: They store proteins called “spidroins” in a liquid crystalline solution called “dope.”

它们将“蜘蛛丝蛋白”储存在一种叫做“纺丝液”的液晶溶液中。

Kinda like table salt, silver chloride is a crystalline solid.

有点像食盐， 氯银是一种结晶固体。

It just has larger and more crystalline grains.

它只是具有更大和更多的晶粒。

There are two main classes of solids, crystalline and amorphous.

固体主要分为两类，结晶的和无定形的。

It's that crystalline structure that gives diamonds their unique durability.

正是这种晶体结构赋予了钻石独特的耐用性。

And those of reptiles often have this really beautiful, almost crystalline order.

爬行动物的秩序往往非常美丽，几乎是水晶般的。