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Quartz is a hard,
crystalline mineral composed of
silica (silicon dioxide). The
atoms are
linked in a
continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra...
- Look up
quartz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Quartz is a
common mineral.
Quartz may also
refer to:
Quartz, California,
former settlement in Butte...
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Quartz clocks and
quartz watches are
timepieces that use an
electronic oscillator regulated by a
quartz crystal to keep time. This
crystal oscillator...
- The
quartz crisis (Swiss) or
quartz revolution (America, ****an and
other countries) was the
upheaval in the
watchmaking industry caused by the advent...
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Citrine is a transparent,
yellow variety of
quartz. Its name is
derived from the
Latin word
citrus (citron tree), by way of the
French citrin or citron...
- The room-temperature form of
quartz, α-
quartz,
undergoes a
reversible change in
crystal structure at 573 °C to form β-
quartz. This
phenomenon is called...
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Quartz is an
American English language news
website owned by Redbrick, a
Canadian software firm.
Focused on
international business news, it was founded...
- watches. In the 1960s the
electronic quartz watch was invented,
powered by a
battery and
keeping time with a
vibrating quartz crystal. By the 1980s it took over...
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Rutilated quartz (also
known as Venus' Hair Stone) is a
variety of
quartz which contains acicular (needle-like)
inclusions of rutile. It is used for gemstones...
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Quartz Compositor is the
display server (and at the same time the
compositing window manager) in macOS. It is
responsible for
presenting and maintaining...
