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rock crystal

noun

  1. transparent quartz, especially when colorless.


rock crystal

noun

  1. a pure transparent colourless quartz, used in electronic and optical equipment. Formula: SiO 2
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rock crystal1

First recorded in 1660–70
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As winds whip around the planet, carrying along the quartz nanoparticles, they form high-altitude hazes — essentially diffuse clouds of rock crystals — at the day–night termination zone.

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She was buried with ivory tusks, ostrich eggshell, and a rock crystal dagger.

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It held a rock crystal dagger, ivory tusks and other lavish items.

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Among the finds have been a Swiss leather shoe over 3,500 years old and a 10,000-year-old Alpine glacier mine where hunters once extracted rock crystals to make arrowheads and other kinds of blades.

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With gilded skin and rock crystal eyes it would have glinted and glowed with life in candlelight on a home altar.

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