quartzes
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pluralof quartz.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
quartznounone of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
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You can buy a few rose quartzes or light a few candles and if it’s meaningful for you, keep it; if not, it’s not like you went through a full religious conversion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2019
The watercourses, whose broad mouths are scattered with thin green, contain pebbles and rolled quartzes, including fine specimens of the crystallized variety.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The quartz sand may well have been derived from the granitic quartzes, but that is an uncertain matter.
From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head
Granites differ in colouring because the minerals that compose them, the feldspars, quartzes, micas, and hornblendes, have each so wide a range of colour.
From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Julia Ellen Rogers
These metalliferous quartzes cannot be further from the coast than a maximum distance of fourteen miles, and the broad, smooth watercourse, with its easy gradients, points it out as the site of the future tramway.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton