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The Bridgman-Stockbarger technique is a crystallization process named for Percy W. Bridgman, an American physicist who developed it in the early 1900s. The process involves heating a material in a crucible until it melts, then slowly cooling it while applying pressure to force the atoms to arrange themselves into a crystalline structure. The technique is used to produce high-quality crystals of various materials, including metals, semiconductors, and insulators.