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• Quartz crystals are piezoelectric, but they do not display pyroelectric effect.From the entry pyroelectric effect
• One answer comes from the fact that it takes a great deal of force to shock quartz.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 44. From the entry shockable
• It’s not just the level of quartz that makes İznik tiles unique, though.2014, Turkey (Fodor’s Travel Guides), Fodor’s, →ISBN. From the entry İznik
• Ninety-five percent of the radiotechnetium, heated out simultaneously, was collected on a cooled quartz tube.2007, Ilse Zolle, Technetium-99m Pharmaceuticals: Preparation and Quality Control in Nuclear Medicine, Springer Science & Business Media…. From the entry radiotechnetium
• Rainbow hematite: This product looks like large druzy flakes (tiny quartz crystals that form on other stones).2006, Louise Duhamel, Metal Clay Jewelry: Projects, Techniques, Embellishments. From the entry druzy
• Aventurin is also the name of a variety of quartz spangled with mica or other shiny mineral.2003, “The Mineral Kingdom. Dictionary of Gems, Jewels, Precious Metals and Minerals, with Their Significance and Use in the Superstition…. From the entry aventurine
• On the contrary, quartz greisens of the main stage are tin-poor.1989, Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde, “Veröffentlichungen des Zentralinstituts für Physik der Erde, Volume 107”, in…. From the entry tropomorphic
• The other constituents (endogangue) are goethite, attapulgite and fine quartz granules.1989, A. J. G. Notholt, D. F. Davidson, R. P. Sheldon (editors), Phosphate Deposits of the World: Volume 2, Phosphate Rock Resources…. From the entry endogangue
• The minettes of Buell Mountain are felsic, and many contain ground-mass quartz.1977, Navajo Kimberlites and Minettes. From the entry minette
• Each achromate consists of a quartz and a fluorite lens mounted in a common frame.1967, Paul Bener, A New Spectrophotometer for Measuring Ultraviolet Sky Brightness and Direct Solar Radiation, page 14. From the entry achromate
• Alluvial goldfields and quartz reefings are in its vicinity, and good indications of coal.1924, Newspaper Press Directory, page 387. From the entry reefing
• A little higher is an outcrop of epidote schist with quartz, carbonate, and magnetite.1915, George Curtis Martin, Bertrand Leroy Johnson, Ulysses Sherman Grant, “Bulletin 587: Geology and Mineral Resources of Kenai…. From the entry epidote
• The more common veinstuffs are calcite, quartz, heavy spar, and fluorspar.1900, Lyman Child Wooster, The Geological Story of Kansas, page 59. From the entry veinstuff
• The backsplash is milkglass acrylic and the countertops are quartz.2022 March 23, Dennis Rodkin, “A rooftop pool with a view of Willis Tower”, in Crain’s Chicago Business, archived from the original on 23…. From the entry milkglass
• Indeed, until recently, it wasn’t believed that quartz was shockable.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 44. From the entry shockable
• Gibson on the elevation of the inversion temperature of quartz with increased pressure, and the discovery by V.B.2012, Boyle, Gold: History and Genesis of Deposits, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry hypothermal
• Later tiles were made from a compound called “stone-paste”—a mixture of ground quartz, glaze frit, and white clay.2009, Erinn Corson, Successful Strategies for Teaching World Geography, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry stone-paste
• With cheap quartz watches (several, for reliability) we can do all the modern celestial navigation we could want.2007, John Karl, “Lunar Distance Sights”, in Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age, Arcata, Calif.: Paradise Cay Publications; Wichita…. From the entry lunar
• Next place your hair, the rose quartz, some of the orris root powder, and the candle drippings into the box.2000, Lady Sabrina, The Witch′s Master Grimoire, page 122. From the entry orris
• The quartz crushers were already more important.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 86. From the entry quartz crusher
• In the whole rock there is almost no quartz.1968, Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Transactions. From the entry limesand
• Quartz with spangled inclusions is known as aventurine.1957, Dorothy M[cKenney] Schlegel, “Semiprecious Gems”, in Gem Stones of the United States (Contributions to Economic Geology; Geological…. From the entry aventurine
• If the kobolde be surprised, the dwarfs immediately assume the form of beautiful crystals, which are therefore called “quartz.”1918, J[oseph] W[illiam] Mellor, Introduction to Modern Inorganic Chemistry, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 590. From the entry kobolde
• I can focus the X-rays first on the screen by means of a special quartz objective which I have devised.1913 August, Arthur B[enjamin] Reeve, “The X-Ray ‘Movies’”, in The Dream Doctor (The Craig Kennedy Series), New York, N.Y.; London: Harper…. From the entry visceral
• Quartz is absent, while felspathoids are present in small quantities.1909, Samuel James Shand, Royal Scottish Museum, An Introduction to Petrography and Guide to the Collections of Rocks, page 45. From the entry felspathoid
• Microscopically the muscovite granites exhibit an absence of biotite, and generally less magnetite and more quartz than the true granites.1906, James Mackintosh Bell, Colin Fraser, The Geology of the Hokitika Sheet, North Westland Quadrangle. From the entry granitite
• The Lomekwi tools are far larger and are made of basalt and phonolite—rocks that are denser than the quartz and quartzite rocks the capuchins use.2017 January, Kate Wong, “Monkeys Make Stone ‘Tools’ That Bear a Striking Resemblance to Early Human Artifacts”, in Scientific American…. From the entry phonolite
• Hilaire sights and modern quartz watches.2007, John Karl, “Lunar Distance Sights”, in Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age, Arcata, Calif.: Paradise Cay Publications; Wichita…. From the entry lunar
• Below us the white granite and quartz of the most sacred of Inca sites sparkled, its Toblerone-shaped walls and deserted craters stretching over seventy acres.2002, Richard Bangs, Ed Viesturs, Richard Bangs, adventure without end. From the entry Toblerone
• The exogangue is composed of diatom fragments with minor amounts of volcanic ash, very fine quartz and feldspar grains, sponge spicules, and organic matter.1990, George Edward Ericksen, John Adam Reinemund, María Teresa Cañas Pinochet (editors), Geology of the Andes and Its Relation to…. From the entry exogangue
• One endmember appears to be slightly enriched in ⁸⁴Kr and ¹³²Xe relative to the vug quartz fluids; the other endmember is relatively enriched in ³⁶Ar.1989, I. A. Franchi, S. R. Boyd, I. P. Wright, C. T. Pillinger, “Application of Lasers in Small-sample Stable Isotopic Analysis”, in W. C.…. From the entry endmember
• He affected prescription lenses, framed in spidery gold, ground from thin slabs of pink synthetic quartz and beveled like the mirrors in a Victorian dollhouse.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry affect
• A lot of druses are found in the vein, and euhedral crystals of quartz, marcasite and sphalerite are observed as druse minerals.1984, Science Reports of the Tohoku University. From the entry druse
• The quartz of the fracture veins and birdeyes which is microcrystalline to coarsely crystalline has possibly formed by direct precipitation from silica rich solutions.1984, Vishwa Jit Gupta, R. C. Kanwar, Carbonate Rocks of the Himalaya, page 132. From the entry birdeye
• A quartz (sparry) vein, unless accompanied by other minerals such as peach, chlorite, &c., is considered valueless as an indication of the presence of ore.1908, James Bastian Hill, The Geology of Falmouth and Truro and of the Mining District of Camborne and Redruth. From the entry peach
• The necklace of clear rock-crystal, still commonly worn by wet-nurses, is a survival of the belief in the lactific virtue of this variety of limpid quartz.2003, E. P. Evans, Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture, page 37. From the entry lactific
• The entire yard is littered with sideboarded boxes running over with smoky quartz, amethyst, petrified wood, fool's gold, rhyolite, calimites, and mineral specimens unknown to the unwashed.1965, Brand Book - Volume 19, page 352. From the entry sideboarded
• The largest patch seen, which is about 2 cm. across, is a milky white crystal almost filling a small vugh in otherwise barren white quartz from the 3-level.1957, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings, page 107. From the entry vugh
• Owing to soft slidy country rock at the beginning, and hard vughy quartz in the reef, very great difficulty was experienced in putting down this hole.1929, New Zealand. Parliament, House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, volume…. From the entry vughy
• Among the former quartz reefs are the most obvious,since they do not laterize and often stand out in bold relief from the red soil surrounding them.1921, Mining Magazine - Volume 25, page 376. From the entry laterize

Meaning of quartz

1. noun The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.
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How do you use quartz in a sentence?

Quartz is used as a noun. For example: “Quartz crystals are piezoelectric, but they do not display pyroelectric effect.”

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“Hilaire sights and modern quartz watches.”

What does quartz mean?

Quartz means the most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.