It is a popular reagent to induce the crystallizing of chemical compounds.

She saw the crystallizing of reason in Samuel's eyes: a moment of comprehension, and then a rush of deep color in his throat.

According to Schofield the fragment rather represents the eclecticism of the early papyri before the crystallizing of the textual families had taken place.

Bernays wrote the book in response to the success of some of his earlier works such as Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and A Public Relations Counsel (1927).