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UK
/kwˈɔːts/
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[ US /ˈkwɔɹts/ ]
[ US /ˈkwɔɹts/ ]
NOUN
- a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities
- colorless glass made of almost pure silica
How To Use quartz In A Sentence
- A quartz watch powered by a battery is constantly powered and tells accurate time all the time and do not need time adjustment.
- I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
- Tian Hengshan 72 meters above sea level, Southeast and Dans associative, rock was also red ocher, belongs to the Sinian ferruginous quartzite.
- Here is nobly born quartz living with a green mineral, called epidote; and they are immense friends. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
- Just outside the pub, in Quartz Street, is The Braai & Meat, a small outdoor restaurant, with happy customers tucking into pap and braaied meat.
- Along the Leathad Riabhach gully, the Ben More Thrust steepens into a subvertical fault with gneiss to the NE and quartzite to the SW.
- Most soils are dominated by quartz sand, and are acidic, xeric, and have a very limited nutrient supply; they are coarser, drier, less fertile, and less suited to agriculture than the mesic soils of Ecoregion 84d. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
- A quartz crystal resonator depends on the piezo-electric effect to work. This effect converts a mechanical stress in a crystal to a voltage and vice versa.
- Soft materials such as frits may require only 2-3 hours, whereas hard materials like quartz can take 24 hours or more. 8. Preparation of glazes
- The main constituent phases of these rocks are plagioclase, hornblende, pyroxene, quartz and K-feldspar, and accessory phases include magnetite, sphene, zircon and apatite.