Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. This crystal oscillator... 50 KB (5,420 words) - 07:19, 27 April 2024 |
The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (American, Japan and other countries) was the upheaval in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent... 26 KB (2,423 words) - 20:55, 24 April 2024 |
Look up quartz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quartz is a common mineral. Quartz may also refer to: Quartz, California, former settlement in Butte... 1 KB (189 words) - 17:01, 7 January 2024 |
Smoky quartz is a brownish grey, translucent variety of quartz that ranges in clarity from almost complete transparency to an almost-opaque brownish-gray... 6 KB (460 words) - 18:40, 21 March 2024 |
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... 35 KB (3,930 words) - 23:49, 10 April 2024 |
Quartz is an American English language news website owned by G/O Media. Focused on international business news, it was founded in 2012 by Atlantic Media... 18 KB (1,282 words) - 15:02, 16 April 2024 |
Fused quartz, fused silica or quartz glass is a glass consisting of almost pure silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2) in amorphous (non-crystalline) form. This... 20 KB (2,394 words) - 01:40, 25 April 2024 |
Rutilated quartz is a variety of quartz which contains acicular (needle-like) inclusions of rutile. It is used for gemstones. These inclusions mostly... 1 KB (154 words) - 20:18, 29 June 2023 |
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... 89 KB (9,470 words) - 18:17, 27 April 2024 |
"Quartz" prefix include these: Quartz Extreme QuartzGL (originally Quartz 2D Extreme) QuartzCore Quartz Display Services Quartz Event Services Quartz 2D... 5 KB (403 words) - 19:47, 8 April 2024 |
Shocked quartz is a form of quartz that has a microscopic structure that is different from normal quartz. Under intense pressure (but limited temperature)... 7 KB (664 words) - 00:11, 4 June 2023 |
Quartz monzonite is an intrusive, felsic, igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars. It is typically... 4 KB (435 words) - 18:59, 19 January 2024 |
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... 3 KB (437 words) - 21:28, 18 January 2022 |
Quartz Compositor is the display server (and at the same time the compositing window manager) in macOS. It is responsible for presenting and maintaining... 7 KB (638 words) - 23:29, 4 August 2022 |
Quartz diorite is an igneous, plutonic (intrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with phaneritic texture. Feldspar is present as plagioclase (typically... 2 KB (170 words) - 18:59, 19 January 2024 |
Quartz fiber is a fiber created from high-purity quartz crystals. It is made by first softening quartz rods (in an oxyhydrogen flame) and then creating... 6 KB (504 words) - 02:12, 26 October 2023 |
Quartz is a job scheduling library that can be integrated into a wide variety of Java applications. Quartz is generally used for enterprise class applications... 1 KB (112 words) - 05:30, 13 December 2021 |
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... 30 KB (2,907 words) - 15:50, 28 April 2024 |
Watch (section Quartz watches) electronic quartz watch was invented, which was powered by a battery and kept time with a vibrating quartz crystal. By the 1980s the quartz watch had taken... 96 KB (10,337 words) - 12:45, 27 April 2024 |
Quartz dolerite or quartz diabase is an intrusive rock similar to dolerite (also called diabase), but with an excess of quartz. Dolerite is similar in... 1 KB (206 words) - 02:45, 4 January 2024 |
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... 6 KB (669 words) - 17:11, 13 October 2021 |
USS Quartz (IX-150), a Trefoil-class concrete barge designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be... 4 KB (333 words) - 22:33, 14 December 2023 |
Quartz News is an American news program from Quartz hosted by Preeti Varathan that premiered on July 19, 2018 on Facebook Watch. The show is broadcast... 3 KB (275 words) - 20:34, 22 July 2022 |
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... 13 KB (671 words) - 06:05, 9 April 2024 |
Infrared heater (redirect from Quartz heater) heaters. Industrial infrared heaters sometimes use a gold coating on the quartz tube that reflects the infrared radiation and directs it towards the product... 21 KB (2,842 words) - 23:40, 11 April 2024 |