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.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site that straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain.

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).

They must be able to be seen from a distance, as well as in conditions that are smoky or otherwise partially obscure the package.

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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.

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.

Whether foraging for firewood, which may expose them and their daughters to the risk of rape, or spending their scarce resources on kerosene for smoky, inefficient lighting, women make difficult decisions every day about household energy resources and usage.

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.

It comes in a five ounce portion of tilapia breaded with Dijon mustard and crispy, broiled breadcrumbs and a steaming pile of pecan quinoa pilaf with crunchy, grilled broccoli so soft and sweet and charred and smoky on the outside with just a hint of chili flake.

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.