quartzes
- plural of quartz.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Rogers, Julia Ellen
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 Head, James William
