Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra...
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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...
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The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (America, Japan and other countries) was the upheaval in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent...
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Sandstone (redirect from Quartz sandstone)
comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar, because they are the most resistant minerals to the weathering...
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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...
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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...
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"Quartz" prefix include these: Quartz Extreme QuartzGL (originally Quartz 2D Extreme) QuartzCore Quartz Display Services Quartz Event Services Quartz 2D...
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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...
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Quartz monzogabbro is an intrusive rock intermediate between quartz gabbro and quartz monzonite. Under the QAPF classification, it is an intrusive rock...
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Amethyst (redirect from Purple quartz)
Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz. The name comes from the Koine Greek αμέθυστος amethystos from α- a-, "not" and μεθύσκω (Ancient Greek) methysko...
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Watch (section Quartz watches)
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 had taken...
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Smoky quartz is a brownish grey, translucent variety of quartz that ranges in clarity from almost complete transparency to an almost-opaque brownish-gray...
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Crystal oscillator (redirect from Quartz oscillator)
element. The oscillator frequency is often used to keep track of time, as in quartz wristwatches, to provide a stable clock signal for digital integrated circuits...
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of silicon with the chemical formula SiO2, commonly found in nature as quartz. In many parts of the world, silica is the major constituent of sand. Silica...
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Quartz monzonite is an intrusive, felsic, igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars. It is typically...
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Rolling Quartz (Korean: 롤링쿼츠) is a South Korean rock band that debuted in December 2020 under Rolling Star Entertainment. Rolling Quartz formed as a five...
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The quartz thermometer is a high-precision, high accuracy temperature sensor. It measures temperature by measuring the frequency of a quartz crystal oscillator...
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Fused quartz, fused silica or quartz glass is a glass consisting of almost pure silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2) in amorphous (non-crystalline) form. This...
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a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content...
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Quartz 2D is the native two-dimensional graphics rendering API for macOS and iOS platforms, part of the Core Graphics framework. Quartz 2D is available...
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Rose quartz is a type of quartz which exhibits a pale pink to rose red hue. Rose Quartz may also refer to: Rose quartz (color), a gray shade of magenta...
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Seiko SKA531P1 Kinetic, using a 5M62 caliber Kinetic movement Automatic quartz is a collective term describing watch movements that combine a self-winding...
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Quartz gabbro is an intrusive rock with a composition intermediate between gabbro and tonalite. It is defined in the QAPF classification as coarse-grained...
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by Mike Davis examining how contemporary Los Angeles has been shaped by different powerful...
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Quartz Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 10,912 at the 2010 census, up from...
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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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Seiko (section Quartz movement)
Kintarō Hattori in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the world's first commercial quartz wristwatch in 1969. Seiko is widely known for its wristwatches. Seiko and...
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