Word: crystallizer
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...keep informed and crystal-clear...
...first, he toyed with the idea of merely smearing abstract designs on the canvas. "I said to myself, 'the police don't understand anything about art, and it won't matter if I just paint stripes or circles.' " But he found himself copying a crystal candlestick and a blue porcelain vase which he saw in his studio. "Much to my surprise," he says, "something decent actually turned up." Emanuel grew a husky white beard to complete his disguise, and painted away delightedly...
...Torsion, Crystallic Image, Construction in Space with Crystal Center. With their bridges and platforms, their delicate plastic cutouts, their gleaming spider webs of plastic thread, they tend to look like the inner ears of a robot or like railway stations in some suburb on Mars...
...silver iodide crystals are carried into the rain clouds by air currents from ground crystal generators. When the crystals reach the cloud, they serve as nuclei to which the water in the cloud adheres. The advantage of using the crystals is that they attract the water particles at a much higher temperature than the regular ice crystals...
...order to protect the Cambridge area from rain on a given day, Howell estimated that under normal wind conditions 25 crystal generators would need to be set up on an are from Worcester to Plymouth. These would start to generate when rain-laden clouds, headed toward Cambridge, drifted overhead...