crystal

solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an ordered lattice extending in all three spatial dimensions
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crystal

Summary

crystal ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,378 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • crystal is a type of solid[2].
  • crystal is a type of chemical substance[3].
  • crystal is a type of Q141223066[4].
  • crystal's Commons category is recorded as Crystals[5].
  • crystal's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Crystals[6].
  • crystal's Commons gallery is recorded as Crystal[7].
  • crystal's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • crystal's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • crystal's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[10].
  • crystal's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • crystal's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12].
  • crystal's manifestation of is recorded as crystallinity[13].
  • crystal's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000845[14].
  • crystal's equivalent class is recorded as https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockobject/Crystal[15].
  • crystal's equivalent class is recorded as https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0020003[16].
  • crystal's different from is recorded as Kristall[17].
  • crystal's different from is recorded as Crystal[18].
  • crystal's studied by is recorded as crystallography[19].
  • crystal's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include solid[2], chemical substance[3], and Q141223066[4].

Why It Matters

crystal ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,378 views/month).[1] crystal has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] crystal is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Q141222183. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Q141572184. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'ast', 'az', 'bar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bew', 'bg', 'bn
    Equivalent class → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000845, https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockobject/Crystal, https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0020003
    Sitelink count → 123
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0020003"
  2. 28d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000845, https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockobject/Crystal, https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0020003
    Subclass of → solid, chemical substance, Q141223066
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q908049]]"
  3. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → solid, chemical substance, Q141223066
    Exact match → —
    Equivalent class → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000845, https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockobject/Crystal, https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0020003
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q141223066]]"
  4. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Voskhod
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q297085, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  5. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1E5V17
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006734-krystaly
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0006734-krystaly, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  7. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Kristall, Crystal
    Manifestation of → crystallinity
    Subclass of → solid, chemical substance, Q141223066
    Aliases → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 15440, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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