1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces v. 347 (heading) A peculiar purification of vulgar impure Tartar..and the crystallizing or reduction of it into great crystalls.

1756 Philos. Trans. Abridged 1743–50 (Royal Soc.) 10 572 The Carlsbad waters give a good deal of neutral salt by boiling and crystallizing.

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 337 Circumstances affecting the crystallizing process.

1924 J. B. Cohen Pract. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 31 The following apparatus is required:..A large crystallising dish which serves as a gas trough.

2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) xxvi. 430 Seawater..is pumped to a crystalizing pond for twelve more months until it is reduced to a three-inch layer of salt crystals.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 86 Dissolutions and Coagulations of several crystallizing Salts.

1743 H. Baker Microscope made Easy (ed. 2) xiii. 144 The Bones..are hard at first: as Salts and other crystallizing Bodies are as hard upon the very first Instant of their Shooting, as they are when grown into large Crystals.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxiv. 353 To be suspended in the middle of the crystallizing solution.

1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (ed. 8) p. ix The same crystallising touch is needed in Religion.

1960 F. J. Turner & J. Verhoogen Igneous & Metamorphic Petrol. (ed. 2) iv. 85 The liquid fraction of a crystallizing magma.

2004 L. Mandelkern Crystallization of Polymers (ed. 2) II. x. 265 An important feature of these copolymers is that their crystallizing portions..all have the same molecular length.