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    quartz


    1. DE is chemically identical to quartz and white ocean sand


    2. In the case of high-quality aggregates (crushed granite and quartz sand) using, as it is shown by E


    3. 1 – on the basis of quartz sand;


    4.  Elestial Quartz: For use on kidneys and liver it’s also calming and soothing it


    5. The presence of shocked quartz was high in these cores, and the hint of underwater landforms within them, which were taken in the gulf east of the Yucatan Peninsula, seemed to be consistent with the above-water portion of that part of eastern Mexico


    6. The heavier shocked quartz and some of the iridium fell back to earth in an Ejecta-field pattern, but much of it was fine enough and lofted high enough to spread around the globe to come raining down for hours, days, weeks, months, even years


    7. The actual spiritual revolution does not need miracles or quartz crystals


    8. I am responsible for preparing all quartz data storage units for ejection into space


    9. Again, why would you want to do such a thing? Why would you save all this information on to quartz units and then launch them into space? What is the purpose of this exercise?"


    10. Correct? We, this group of scientists you see here, are trying to complete the quartz storage project: the final and highest-level directive ever issued by the Occidental Union Administrators

    11. He’d have assumed it was quartz, were it not glowing brightly in both visible light and in his magic-sensing vision


    12. I have a piece of blue quartz that should fit where the sapphire is


    13. No one can provide a plausible explanation of how prehistoric Indians with primitive tools could have carved and polished the extremely hard quartz it is made of


    14. There were healing quartz stones on the beaches as well


    15. As it is, we used quartz crystals we gleaned from a river, not much bigger than large grains of sand


    16. That and the quartz made it jump out at me


    17. One afternoon while I was experimenting with the properties of pink quartz and sea salt, my crystal ball became opaque as if it were containing blue clouds inside, equal to the phenomenon that had taken place in Severa’s house


    18. I recognized the Cave’s five oaks, though each appeared as living jewels with trunks and branches of white quartz, supporting leaves of solid gold


    19. For example, to treat stomach pain, some healers place charged quartz on the lower abdomen area to help restore energy there


    20. The kids being kids, rebounded quicker–they’d already explored what they could of the island; it wasn’t much more than 100 feet wide and 200 feet long, maybe half an acre in size and composed of hard granite shot with quartz

    21. It looked insurmountable, that giant palisade with its sheer curtains of solid rock in which bits of quartz winked dazzlingly in the sunlight


    22. Flick off other peoples stresses: Carry a piece of the crystal smoky quartz in your pocket or handbag


    23. It was made of titanium alloy, had a quartz movement powered by a battery connected to mini solar panels incorporated to the wrist strap, and had multiple dials and moving crowns actually designed for use by combat pilots


    24. She held up a big clear quartz crystal and sang to it, Gonna rock around the clock tonight, gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad day light


    25. banks and not in clusters as quartz is customarily discovered


    26. Bennu stands on the more I believe it is made out of quartz, the same


    27. all and has associated quartz and lilac lep-


    28. quartz crystals associated with quartz crystals are


    29. Many rose quartz specimens are barely pink, but they are still revered; these crystals are deeply blushing and of the color that collectors yearn for in their vision of a superior rose quartz specimen


    30. They include the unique yellow topaz on quartz that’s now in the Carnegie Museum

    31. Fortunately, this applies to calcite and quartz, but it is rarely observed in nature, at least, not in stunning specimens


    32. The Swiss fluorites with quartz were long considered the best, and the example shown here is a great combination of the rare pink fluorite octahedrons with absolutely stunning and nearly flawless quartz


    33. The miniature specimen of bornite crystals on quartz crystals shown on the left is from the Old Copper Mine in Bristol, Connecticut


    34. “Mountains” in which the best cinnabars were glued to imagi-natively created mounds of quartz crystals


    35. There are both twinned and untwinned crystals on or with quartz and/or dolomite


    36. The cinnabar included in quartz is a great rarity and it is the best I ever acquired


    37. 75-inch specimen of quartz with brilliant fluorite cubes was one of those he found in this hydrothermal vein


    38. mined, but this example, at 7 inches, has larger doubly terminated quartz crystals than most


    39. The pink tourmaline on quartz, which measures 5 inches across, is from Paprok, Nuristan, Afghanistan


    40. Both the quartz and tourmaline are perfectly formed, and the specimen has a touch of lilac lepidolite that sets it off perfectly

    41. David, who was science advisor to President Nixon and a vice president of Exxon, acquired the wondrous Russian gwindel quartz that is now in the Houston Museum, and I received this specimen and a very large pink Pakistani fluorite that is also shown in this book


    42. Tourmalines with quartz occur in pegmatites all over the world


    43. I particularly treasure this 1-inch-long doubly terminated gem crystal of smoky quartz with green tourmaline inclusions


    44. Shortly before the old miner died, Herb showed me a 4-inch-long brown tourmaline he had just found and told me that there was a great pocket of smoky quartz under the water-filled pit


    45. morganite with a quartz crystal and on a 4-inch-


    46. The other specimen is from Gilgit and exhibits a 5-inch-long aquamarine on a 7-inch-long smoky quartz crystal


    47. The aquamarine has been repaired, but I think that is to be expected, much as it is with amazonite and quartz from Colorado


    48. Combinations of aquamarine and smoky quartz are much rarer than amazonite and smoky quartz, and a specimen of this quality is truly a wonder


    49. of rose quartz and rutilated


    50. Perhaps, as in milky quartz, this hazy aspect is due to inclusions of very tiny gas bubbles


































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    Synonyms for "quartz"

    quartz crystal lechatelierite quartz glass vitreous silica

    "quartz" definitions

    colorless glass made of almost pure silica


    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