rock crystal
rock crystal noun: a clear, colorless form of the silica-based mineral quartz.
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Noun
rock crystal (countable and uncountable, plural rock crystals)
- A clear, colorless form of the silica-based mineral quartz.
- […] I have for Trials sake taken Lumps of Rock Crystal, and Heating them Red hot in a Crucible, I found according to my Expectation, that being Quench’d in Fair water, even those that remain’d in seemingly entire Lumps, exchang’d their Translucency for Whiteness […]1664, Robert Boyle, chapter 1, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, London: Henry Herringman, page 114
- […] I saw his Body, in Episcopal Robes, lying upon the Altar in a Shrine of Rock-Crystal.1718, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Part of Italy, London: J. Tonson, pages 22–23
- Synonyms:
- clear quartz, pure quartz
rock crystal meaning in Tamil and Kannada
rock crystal in Tamil
- பாறைப்பளிங்கு
rock crystal in Kannada
- ಶಿಲಾಸ್ಫಟಿಕ
Examples of rock crystal in a sentence
- Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal.1895, H. G. Wells, chapter 1, in The Time Machine, New York: Henry Holt, page 24:
- At New Year he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, London: Fourth Estate, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 296:
Synonyms of rock crystal
Forms of rock crystal
| plural | rock crystals |
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Questions about rock crystal
- What does rock crystal mean?
- Rock crystal means a clear, colorless form of the silica-based mineral quartz.
- What is rock crystal in Tamil?
- Rock crystal in Tamil is பாறைப்பளிங்கு. See Rock crystal meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use rock crystal in a sentence?
- Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal.
- What part of speech is rock crystal?
- Rock crystal is a noun.
- What is the plural of rock crystal?
- The plural of rock crystal is rock crystals.
Words near rock crystal in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rock crystal (page history and authors); rock crystal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rock crystal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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