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Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not
the crying sin of our modern Christianity.

I. Taylor.

Cry`o*hy"drate (kr?`?-h?"dr?t), n.
[Gr. kry`os cold + E. hydrate.] (Chem.)
A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which
crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low
temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F.
Guthrie.

Cry"o*lite (krī"?-l?t), n.
[Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + -lite: cf. F.
cryolithe.] (Min.) A fluoride of sodium and
aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used
as a source of soda and alumina.

Cry*oph"o*rus (kr&isl;*&obreve;f"&osl;*rŭs),
n. [NL., fr. Gr. kry`os icy cold,
frost + fe`rein to bear.] (Chem.) An
instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own
evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs,
connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a
quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in
one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below
32° Fahr.

Crypt (kr&ibreve;pt), n.


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