Quartz is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUARTZ in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the commonest rock-forming mineral, composed of silica
• a hard mineral consisting of silica, found widely in igneous and metamorphic rocks and typically occurring as colourless or white hexagonal prisms. It is often coloured by impurities (as in amethyst, citrine, and cairngorm).
• hard glossy mineral
• A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.
• colorless glass made of almost pure silica
• a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a mineral

Words related to QUARTZ

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Words that contain QUARTZ

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How to use QUARTZ in a sentence

• We lay down on the black sand, and gazed, and gazed, and picked up quartz crystals fallen from above, and wondered how the cove had got its name.
• Thin veins of calcareous spar and quartz intersected the granite.
• I walked up the narrow track that led up to the little gully with the moon shining down upon the white quartz rock.
• In other regions the gold-bearing quartz was actually a curse, our path being covered with sharp pebbles of quartz and slate, which made ever step forward a positive agony.
• Quartz crystals for electrical circuits, their design and manufacture.
• When this operation is effected the boyl-yas are drawn out in the form of pieces of quartz, which are kept and considered as great curiosities by the natives.
• It was in the first days of the Lillooet quartz discoveries.
• The sand of the Missouri from its mouth to this place has been mixed with a substance which we had presumed to be a granulated chalk, but which is most probably this quartz.
• This quartz mine, up in the mountains, was the one near which Injun and Whitey had had so many exciting adventures.
• If you have no matches, you can sometimes start a fire by striking your knife blade with a piece of flint or quartz, a hard white stone that is common nearly everywhere.
• Prosperity came, however, with the introduction of quartz mining in 1875, and in 1879 a city charter was granted.
• A large number of minute quartz pebbles, probably used in a rattle or in playing some game of chance.
• At a native fire-place I found a piece of quartz and a large pearl oyster-shell.
• In making an instrument of this kind the quartz can be purchased from a dealer in minerals.
• We recrossed a gravel bed of irregular fragments of quartz and flint at the base of some slight hills which reach from the range to the river.
• It is a mineral vein, or cavity, in which are blended together coal of the most fixed kind, quartz and marmor metallicum.
• The best soil for it appears to be a pure quartz sand, which in some places rests on black moss or mould.
• Put gold-bearing quartz under an upright log shod with iron.
• Nor is the quartz of this vein the only trustworthy source of yield.

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