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Example sentences for: quartz

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Cartier was not exactly showered with honors when he returned with eleven barrels of worthless yellow iron pyrites and glittering quartz.
Cat's-eye is a semi-precious, yellowish-brown stone, a variety of chalcedonic quartz or chrysoberyl, which, cut in a certain way, reflects light and has a luster like the contracted pupil of a cat's eye.
The UV exposure chamber is comprised of a fused quartz UV exposure window (279 × 254 mm), on which a UV fixture containing six 36-watt UV lamps (Lumalier, Memphis, Tennessee) sits.
Known as “China’s Yellowstone,” this UNESCO World Heritage Site is a remote park of spectacular and uncanny quartz labyrinths and pinnacles, massive limestone caves, white-water rapids, steep hiking trails, and minority villages.
At its best, it's a sequel to City of Quartz , using the environment as a window onto Los Angeles' social problems.