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.

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

The happiest (and least happy) countries in the world, ranked http t.co 4EccwDNBp7 Quartz ( qz) August 27, 2015

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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(d) Rebel armed groups. They include forces of the Sudan Liberation Movement, the Justice and Equality Movement and the Movement for Reform and Development.

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.

The Indian independence movement was a mass based movement that encompassed various sections of society.

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Treatment of movement disorders.

Pax Romana (International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs and International Movement of Catholic Students)

The movement goes by the name of Forza d'Urto ( shock force ), better known as the Pitchforks Movement .

The subsequent movement gained momentum and came to be known simply as the Hirak , Arabic for movement .

This movement may well have been the largest single movement of civilians in history prior to 1947.

So you're a movement chauvinist.

Now we've got a movement.

Robert Full on animal movement

That, I think, is movement.

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Suva Fiji Women's Rights Movement.

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Non Aligned Movement (Peacekeeping operations)

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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.