She uses an imperfect crystal and her blade shorts out in a sparring match with Jacen.
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Any method used to make crystals quickly ( such as rapidly dropping solution temperature, or " scratching ", or adding seed crystals ) will cause LOTS of small, imperfect crystals to form.
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Thus Guinier's classic text from 1963 is titled " X-ray diffraction in Crystals, Imperfect Crystals and Amorphous Bodies " so'diffraction'was clearly not restricted to crystals at that time.
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A common feature of glassy rocks is the presence of rounded bodies ( spherulites ), consisting of fine divergent fibres radiating from a center; they consist of imperfect crystals of feldspar, mixed with quartz or tridymite; similar bodies are often produced artificially in glasses that are allowed to cool slowly.