quartz

6 letters in word "quartz": A Q R T U Z.

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Words found within quartz:

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• Definitions:
• quartz glass: 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
• Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the Earth's continental crust. It belongs to the rhombohedral crystal system, and is made up of silica () tetrahedra. Quartz has a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale. Density is 2.65 g/cm³. ...
• Quartz are the Swedish dance production duo of Dave Rawlings and Ronnie Herel. They are well known for their collaboration with Clubland on "Let's Get Busy" which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1990.
• Quartz are a British heavy metal band.
• Quartz is a pair of Mac OS X technologies, each part of the Core Graphics framework: Quartz 2D and Quartz Compositor. Quartz serves as both a 2D renderer in Core Graphics, as well as the composition engine that sends instructions to the graphics card. ...
• A crystalline mineral used for gems, usually colorless and transparent.
• Common rock-forming mineral consisting of silicon and oxygen. Quartzite - A metamorphic rock formed by the transformation of a sandstone by heat and pressure.
• a transparent crystalline mineral of silica that finds application in sensors due to its optical and piezoelectric characteristics
• Code-name for a tablet-like, quarter-VGA portrait screen size, pen-based, reference design.
• For Mac OS X, what are Quartz and Quartz Extreme?
• Microsoft software component for handling and displaying digital video, including AVI, MPEG, and QuickTime, for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. Intended to replace Video for Windows. Originally codenamed Quartz, then released as as ActiveMovie. Now (May, 1998) DirectShow.
• Tungsten-Halogen lights or lighting units. The name comes from the lamp's enclosure.
• A form of silicone dioxide. Commonly used in the making of radio transmitters and heat resistant products.
• (Geology) The most common rock-forming mineral. It is made up of silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ). Quartz crystals may be glassy or opaque (milky quartz) and exist in a variety of colors including white, rose, smoky gray, and purple.
• mineral with the formula SiO2. Usually it is clear, or translucent white, but it can be other colors due to impurities or radiation damage. It is not scratched by a knife and breaks along irregular surfaces.
• A common crystalline stone. A major part of granite.
• When activated by a battery or solar power, a thin sliver of crystal very predictably vibrates, providing very accurate timekeeping.
• The first of the glasses; the essential constituent of granite and porphyry.
• Crystalline silica, a hard brittle mineral breaking with a glasslike fracture, and usually transparent to translucent, and colourless, or of a white, pink, and amethystine hue.
• The basic composition of sandstone and a major component in shales, conglomerates and some igneous and metamorphic rocks.
• a very hard crystalline form of slicon dioxide used in chemical apparatus and in optical and electric instrument
• A compound composed of silicon and oxygen.
• A highly resilient mineral based on silica (SiO2).
• The most common and widely known mineral. It includes many varieties of gemstones in a great variety of colors. Among the best known are amethyst, citrine, smoky-quartz, aventurine, agate, and tiger's-eye.
• Colourless, violet, yellow, brown, pink or red mineral, composed of silicon and oxygen.
• A mineral composed mainly of SiO2
• a crystalline mineral, often transparent, in which gold and silver veins were most commonly found.
• a very hard mineral composed of silica and found in many different types of rocks, such as sandstone and granite. Quartzes vary according to the size and purity of their crystals. those with submicroscopic crystals are divided into fibrous varieties, or chalcedonies, and granular varieties. ...
• A natural transparent form of silica, which may be marketed in its natural crystalline state, or crushed and remelted to form fused quartz.
• A Quartz Movement is a watch with a mechanism powered by a "Quartz Crystal". The crystal vibrates when placed in a electronic field, thus powering the watch. Most affordable watches today have Quartz movements. Quartz watches are mostly battery operated.

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