Crystal

Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s artwork titled The Plover Crystal River in Mutsu Province is a 3 piece colored artwork. These pieces are apart of a larger series called The Six Crystal Rivers. These pieces are made from 1847 to 1848. Utagawa had used a popular style of woodblock prints and paintings during the Edo period called ukiyo-e. Although they can be displayed separately on their own, the prints can be put together to form an even larger piece of artwork. These series of prints are 14 inches…

have a disordered arrangement, which do not constitute to the characteristic of the crystal grid and, therefore, have zero crystallinity. The distribution of molecules in the solid amorphous form is not entirely random as it is specific to a gaseous state because it has a certain degree of order between neighboring molecules. Due to the lack of regulation and the absence of a crystal grid, compared to the crystal the amorphous form has higher enthalpy, entropy and Gibbs free energy. Therefore,…

Rubisco exists in four forms. Form I Rubisco is a hexadecamer, which is repeated four times in the basic structural motif, a dimer of large subunits, to form a catalytic core of L8, with small subunits on the top and bottom of this core (L8S8).14–16 Form II Rubisco is a simple dimer of large subunits, ranging from L2-8, sharing 25–30% identity to the L subunits of Form I Rubisco. This structure is similar to the structure of the basic dimer of the Form I Rubisco despite some differences in…

Haines et al., A neutron diffraction study of quartz-type FePO4: high-temperature behavior and αβ phase transition Kristallogr. 218, 193-200 (2003) Paragraph 1 Crystal chemical relationship between quartz (SiO2) and FePO4 Silicon dioxide is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula of SiO2. SiO2 is a chemical compound most commonly found in Quartz and it has a space group of P3121. The lattice symmetry of SiO2 is tetrahedron, where there are 4 oxygen atoms covalently bonded to the silicon…

In the book The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, the protagonist Merlin realizes that one word of his could frighten men such as Ambrosius. Unlike “normal” people, Merlin is gifted “the sight”. He inherits this from his mother, but she never uses hers to its full potential. Instead, she shuts it out and no longer use it. Until Merlin meets Galapas, he does not understand why he knows certain matters that he should not know. With the help of Galapas and the mystery of the Crystal Cave, Merlin starts…

In the novel, The Crystal Frontier by author Carlos Fuentes narrates the experience of nine different people to show his readers the continuous relationship between the neighboring countries of Mexico and the United States of America. Throughout the novel the nine stories, all contain different people and their experience with however it’s not till the end when the stories all interact with one another, to fully understand what Fuentes was trying to portray by telling these stories. One person…

supporters of texting, some are against it and the implications it has on our culture and language. David Crystal, in his essay “2B Or Not 2B?”, attacks the claims of those challengers. David Crystal’s use of the rhetorical strategies hyperbole, counterargument, and concession effectively argues that texting does not hinder the English language, but rather helps to evolve it. Crystal…

In the novel The Crystal Cave, social status supports the plot. In the novel, Merlin is the bastard son of Niniane. His father was unnamed in the beginning, and because of that, he spent his childhood getting mocked and bullied. He is also brought to Vortigern because Vortigern believes that the blood of a child without a father can help support his castle. Cerdic, a slave was executed for leaving out oil that caused Merlin’s grandfather to slip and die. The time period also supports the plot.…

Crystal Run Healthcare is a multispecialty group practice located in the Hudson Valley Region of New York and New York City. The practice is a physician owned and physician managed private for-profit organization established 20 years ago. Over the past five years Crystal Run Healthcare (CRHC) has been in a state of rapid expansion both in locations and number of providers. Currently, there are over 400 providers delivering care to 300,000 lives in outpatient and inpatient settings. Recognized…

The availability of the crystal structure of the potassium dependent asparaginase from Phaseolus vulgaris (PvAspG1) provided insight into the mechanism of potassium activation (Bejger et al., 2014). There are two alkali metal binding sites in each α subunit, located in highly characteristic metal coordination loops. One of them is structural and is referred to as the stabilization loop. It is also present, as a sodium binding loop, in the crystal structure of K+ independent asparaginase from…