Quartz sparked enthusiasm among English speaking Twitter users, as well.

These are quartz crystals and feldspar, so most sand in the world on the mainland is made of quartz crystal and feldspar. It's the erosion of granite rock.

While a quartz watch keeps time more accurately than the most finely crafted handmade mechanical Swiss watch, the value of a quartz watch has plummeted, while Swiss watches value has climbed into the stratosphere.

The presence of carbon allows steel to assume one of several different crystalline configurations.

Chalcedony's standard chemical structure (based on the chemical structure of quartz) is SiO2 (silicon dioxide).

There are, of course, the country s rich history, abundance of archeological sites, azure skies, and crystalline seas.

It began in 1934 when she was offered a small sample of crystalline insulin by Robert Robinson.

For a list of the many different crystalline and amorphous forms of solid H2O, see the article ice.

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Lily Kuo explores on Quartz how Chinese netizens got around the censors to read the article and discuss the issue.

Certain crystals, such as quartz, or even sugar, generate a potential difference across their faces when subjected to external pressure.

In 1932, a quartz clock able to measure small weekly variations in the rotation rate of the Earth was developed.

Surprisingly, the leading countries in terms of positive emotions were all in Latin America, from Paraguay to Nicaragua, according to Quartz.

Quartz glass, which is common in cuvettes, can withstand high temperatures and is transparent in certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Sort of crystalline. So DNA had a structure, even though it owed it to probably different molecules carrying different sets of instructions.

In the case of biological macromolecules such as proteins, the advantage of SAXS over crystallography is that a crystalline sample is not needed.

The presence of water ice is supported by infrared spectroscopic observations, which have revealed crystalline water ice on the surface of the moon.

In an article that appeared on the news website Quartz, Biblioburros was listed as one of eight libraries every book lover must visit.

A marble statue could wave its hand at us the atoms that make up its crystalline structure are all vibrating back and forth anyway.

Defined as the application of a liquid insecticide with long lasting residual properties which dries to form a crystalline deposit on the sprayed surface.

PCT AU98 00739, priority date 11 September, 1997 Method of deposition of thin films of amorphous and crystalline microstructures based on ultrafast pulsed laser deposition , (2001).

Physical properties The crystalline structure is held together with strong covalent bonding similar to diamonds, that allows moissanite to withstand high pressures up to 52.1 gigapascals.

Metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibers over time lead to the development of the cataract and loss of transparency, causing impairment or loss of vision.

The pattern of the circuitry for each chip is contained in a pattern etched in chrome on the reticle, which is a plate of transparent quartz.

They could have bought an accurate, lightweight, maintenance free quartz watch that can run for five years, keeping virtually perfect time, without ever being moved or wound.

Cataract surgery is the removal of the natural lens of the eye (also called crystalline lens ) that has developed an opacification, which is referred to as a cataract.

The National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) based the time standard of the United States on quartz clocks from late 1929 until the 1960s, when it changed to atomic clocks.

Heat causes atomic bonds to break, and the atoms move and form new bonds with other atoms, creating new minerals with different chemical components or crystalline structures (neocrystallization), or enabling recrystallization.

An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.

Crystals in the rhombohedral lattice system are always in the trigonal crystal system, but some crystals such as quartz are in the trigonal crystal system but not in the rhombohedral lattice system.

PRINCETON When Radosław Sikorski, Poland s foreign minister, went to Ukraine for talks last month, his Ukrainian counterparts reportedly laughed at him because he was wearing a Japanese quartz watch that cost only 165.

In addition, the quartz watches also have integrated alarm, stopwatch, and timer functions that the other watches either lack, or that serve only as a design spoiling, hard to read effort to keep up with the competition.

Germanium differs from silicon in that the supply for germanium is limited by the availability of exploitable sources, while the supply of silicon is only limited by production capacity since silicon comes from ordinary sand or quartz.

Based on the NDRC s figures, 2008 capacity utilization rates were just 76 for steel, 75 for cement, 73 for aluminum, 88 for flat glass, 40 for methanol, and 20 for poly crystalline silicon (a key raw material for solar cells).

Surgical treatments that reshape the cornea, such as PresbyLASIK and conductive keratoplasty, are also worth consideration, but some use of reading glasses will still remain when light is poor or when reading for extended periods of time, since such procedures do nothing for crystalline lens deterioration.