Word: Quartz
How to pronounce: kwɔːts
Noun
Definitions:
1. A hard white or colorless mineral consisting of silicon dioxide, found widely in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. It is often colored by impurities (as in amethyst, citrine, and cairngorm).
Example sentences: "The sample is strongly foliated and consists of garnet, biotite, quartz, plagioclase and cordierite."
Synonyms:
silica
crystal
quartz glass
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French: Quartz
Italian: Quarzo
Turkish: Kuvars
