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transparent quartz - a clear quartz used in making electronic and optical equipment

quartz - 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

rhinestone - an imitation diamond made from rock crystal or glass or paste

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A rutilated quartz is basically a transparent quartz with unique golden yellow hair-like inclusions.

Jewels for Juliet

Pictet described the specimens as "transparent pieces of pink fluorite of the tetrahedral double-pyramidal form, sometimes layered in feldspar and transparent quartz" (Asselborn, 1993, 1999).

Alpine pink fluorite

For the investigation of optical, photoluminescence, and photoelectrochemical properties of a charge-transfer complex thin polymer films deposited onto optically transparent quartz substrates were employed.

Molecular scale organized polyconjugated polymer-heteropolyacid composites/molekulaartasemel struktureeritud polukonjugeeritud polumeer-heteropoluhapete komposiidid

Ueno and his colleagues analyzed samples of transparent quartz taken from the Dresser formation in Western Australia.

Tiny bubbles: oldest evidence yet for methane makers

A specialty which Amilcar has served up in recent times is yellow-green muscovite in rosette-shaped aggregates forming solid coatings on transparent quartz crystals: these specimens are very colorful and attractive.

Treasure-hunting in Minas Gerais since 2000

CIBA uses molds made of transparent quartz glass, which can be reused, unlike the plastic molds used for hydrogel lenses.

Vision Quest

They are hollow molds of small, transparent quartz crystals on black sphalerite which originally grew on octahedral fluorite crystals to 4 cm, after which the fluorite was dissolved completely.

Pseudomorphs from Peru: pseudomorphs, crystals that have been replaced by another species while retaining their original shape, have been found in remarkable variety in the mines and mineral deposits of Peru. They provide evidence of changing chemical and physical conditions within ore deposits, and also make fascinating specimens

The transparent quartz crystals, reaching 4 cm long, are thickly included with red-brown acicular rutile such that the overall body color is golden brown: these crystals look strikingly like the familiar ones from Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil.

Munich show 2007

Highly lustrous, part-gemmy, classically ax-shaped, medium-brown ferro-axinite crystals to 5 cm form groups with colorless, transparent quartz prisms, the latter reaching 10 cm.

Tucson show 2007