quartz : Idioms & Phrases


quartz battery

  • noun a stamp mill for stamping quartz
    quartz battery.
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quartz crystal

  • noun a thin plate or small rod of quartz cut along certain lines and ground so that it can produce an electric signal at a constant frequency; used in crystal oscillators
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quartz glass

  • noun colorless glass made of almost pure silica
    crystal; lechatelierite; quartz; vitreous silica.
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quartz lamp

  • noun a mercury-vapor lamp that is enclosed in a quartz container instead of a glass container
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quartz mill

  • noun a stamp mill for stamping quartz
    quartz battery.
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quartz oscillator

  • noun an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal
    crystal oscillator.
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Rose quartz

  • noun a translucent rose-red variety of quartz used for ornaments
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  • (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.
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Smoky quartz

  • noun a smoky yellow or brown quartz
    cairngorm.
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  • (Min.), a variety of quartz crystal of a pale to dark smoky-brown color. See Quartz.
Webster 1913

transparent quartz

  • noun a clear quartz used in making electronic and optical equipment
    rock crystal.
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