Word: crystallic
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Bloembergen's solution was to use a crystal instead of a gas and to devise a means for keeping a large proportion of the atoms in the crystal in the higher energy states...
...magnetic field surrounding the crystal and impurities introduced into the crystal make three discrete energy level available. A special generator directs microwave radiation towards the crystal so that electrons are continuously "pumped" from the first to the third level. The crystal is kept cold so that the maximum number of electrons is kept at the highest level...
...Performers who had been worried about the open theater's acoustics soon learned to forget their fears. The Romans had staged dramas, musical contests and water ballets at Caesarea, and the ancient impresarios knew their business. In the slow second movement, sustained, vibrant notes, clear and fragile as crystal, rippled to the topmost rows of the semicircular theater. Not a nuance was lost to the wind; it was as if Casals were playing in his own study...
Under the great crystal chandeliers of Vienna's Neue Hofburg palace finance ministers and bankers from the 73 Western, African and Asian nations belonging to the International Monetary Fund last week grappled with a problem inconceivable only five years ago. The underlying-though unconfessed-preoccupation of the Vienna meeting; how to keep the U.S. dollar from being bullied by the newly muscular currencies of France, West Germany, Italy and Japan...
Relaxing in shorts and bare feet, Israel's prickly Premier David Ben-Gurion, 74, celebrated the eve of the 5,722nd (since the Creation) Jewish New Year by peering into his crystal ball for a Tel Aviv tabloid. "I am no prophet," cautioned Ben-Gurion as he hunched knees to chin, yoga style, to prophesy, "but if what we call the cold war is ended-and I hope it will be without the world exploding-in 20 years America will be a welfare state and Russia will be a democratic country...