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

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Stone adopted her second son, Laird Vonne Stone, in 2005, and her third son, Quinn Kelly Stone, in 2006.

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.

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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.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

Steinstossen is the Swiss variant of stone put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone.

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

Bill Stone Exploring deep caves

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In her post, Stone says

A stone does not float.

A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone.

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh's temple.

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.

The homes were built of stone.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation he that believeth shall not make haste.

And when Our command came , We turned it upside down , and rained on it , stone after stone of baked clay ,

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.

I killed two birds in one stone.

I have a stone in my shoe.

Political maps are never carved in stone.

To kill two birds with one stone.

They are like rubies and coral stone .

They are like rubies and coral stone .

Pre historic age Little evidence remains in Scandinavia of the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, or the Iron Age except limited numbers of tools created from stone, bronze, and iron, some jewelry and ornaments, and stone burial cairns.

So these 99 stones, a few kind of rules in the game Number one, you don't choose the stone the stone chooses you.

having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal

Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

Having the glory of God and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal

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We're no longer living in the stone age.

Two birds would be wounded with one stone.

Pearls and coral stone come forth from them .

Pearls and coral stone come forth from them .

Nothing in our proposal is cast in stone.

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.