crystals

The first is the formation and shape of ice crystals which can (and do) destroy cells.

The second is the effect of the cryo fluid they pump into patients to prevent said ice crystals from forming, because it's also toxic to proteins.

This means the chocolate maker has to use temperature, agitation and time as the three variables to generate the right crystals and get rid of the others.

Granted, these are also people who believe in Biodynamics and its horns full of crystals which channel cosimic power.

If you centrifuge salt water you'll get a concentration gradient and if it's saturated at the end you'll get salt crystals.

Certainly possible, except that quartz crystals grow in hot watery solutions, and those are equally hard to come by in space.

Presumably it’s a suspension of either spherical beads or tiny corner reflectors (quartz crystals?).

Maybe we learn that crystals grown in space can have a perfect crystal structure useful in manufacturing stable q-bits.

But these new crystals would be even fancier than the old ones.

Can't you just stick on of those fancy crystals in your computer?

I'm not being so pedantic as to suggest that the fibres or crystals etc.

Computers are already made out of fancy crystals.

Despite all the medical advances, there is still an economic niche for quacks selling "cosmic crystals" to cure your cancer.

It occurs usually in small isolated crystals." I'm guessing that's not what you meant.

"Crystals are light and 50 dollars, plus they're diamonds"