The Emergence Machine

Crystal Mineral

physical · Level 2 · E3

E3Chemistry

Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

A crystal-mineral is matter that exhibits a repeating pattern due to its spatial arrangement, leveraging the properties of matter and pattern.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “Crystal Mineral” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “Crystal Mineral”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL2L1L0Crystal MineralMatterEnergyPatternSpaceE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesCrystal MineralL2MatterL1E1 concrete → E14 abstract

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Matter L1 (requires)
    A crystal is matter arranged in a repeating pattern