Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
quartz
IPA transcription: [kw'ɔɹts]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
quartz_glass, quartz, vitreous_silica, lechatelierite, crystal
Meaning:
colorless glass made of almost pure silica
Usage examples
There is a good deal of pure white quartz.
They failed both with powdered felspar and quartz.
The most common vein stones are QUARTZ and CALCITE.
"Do me the kindness to throw out some of that quartz!"
The soil, in fact, was bestrewn with quartz and porphyritic rocks.
The shingle was composed of slate, quartz, and granite, named in the order of abundance.
He turned to the flare computer and back to what he could see through the quartz viewport.
It was not more than the piece of rotten quartz he had picked up and planned to examine later.
But the nugget was an isolated freak; the quartz could not be worked at a profit; and the movement suddenly died out.
The quartz rock must have been quite pasty when it underwent such remarkable flexures without being shattered into fragments.