Word: crystallizer
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Water, reasoned Vonnegut, forms hexagonal ice crystals with well-known characteristics. If another hexagonal crystal could be found with nearly the same characteristics, the water molecules in the air might be fooled into building up on it as if it were a genuine ice nucleus...
Emergency Supplies. In San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Olga Muse filed suit against her ex-husband Joseph to recover 14 cans of fish, one elastic stocking, five boots, one crystal ball...
Blind Spot. In Jersey City, Fortuneteller Rachel Lilly called up the police, asked them to help her find her car and her crystal ball...
Separated by broad cobbled squares and courtyards are the ornate buildings of the Czars, executed, like the history of Russia itself, in a variety of styles: Byzantine, Gothic, Romanesque, Neoclassic. On the tops of the tallest spires are the newest accretions: huge five-pointed crystal stars which catch the sun's rays. The tall Spasski clock overlooking Red Square strikes the hour, and chimes. From cupolas, cornices, eaves and ledges a flock of ravens rises in a black cloud, filling the air with cawing, then settles...
SEAC is completely electronic, with no mechanical parts. Instead of the thousands of expensive and bulky vacuum tubes that serve as "brain cells" in other large computers, SEAC does most of its thinking with 12,800 germanium crystal diodes-modern descendants of the "crystals" in oldtime radios. The diodes are small, trouble-free and quick, allowing the electric pulses of the machine's thinking processes to circulate at the rate of one million per second...