QUARTZ
\kwˈɔːts], \kwˈɔːts], \k_w_ˈɔː_t_s]\
Definitions of QUARTZ
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.
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A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.
By Noah Webster.
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A hard mineral composed of pure silica; the most common of solid minerals, found in many kinds of rock, often in the form of crystals.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A name applied to numerous varieties of rock-crystal of many shades of colour, or to crystallised silica, known under the various names of rock-crystal, amethyst, siderite, topaz, cairngorm, milk-quartz, rose-quartz, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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