As minerals crystallize, the composition of the residual melt typically changes.
Heavier minerals may crystallize and settle to the bottom of the magma chamber.
Beginning geology students are familiar with his "reaction series" depicting how different minerals crystallize under varying pressures and temperatures.
Spinel-group minerals crystallize in the isometric system with an octahedral habit.
Bowen's reaction series - the sequence in which minerals crystallize from a cooling basaltic magma.
A similar mineral, sinjarite the dihydrate of calcium chloride, crystallizes in the tetragonal system.
The mineral crystallizes in the cubic crystal system.
Bladder stones happen when urine is concentrated and minerals crystallize and clump together.
As vast "oceans" of magma slowly cool, certain minerals crystallize earlier than others, removing their constituents from the mix.
In this process minerals crystallize from watery solutions that percolate through the pores between grain of sediment.
