Gautam R. Desiraju replies
The word cristal is most commonly used in Spanish to describe crystal and glass, unlike the English language, where 'crystal' refers only to high-quality glass, cut glass and so on. The word vidrio is not used so frequently.
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Crystal: clear difference from glass. Nature 423, 918 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423918a
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