And then I remembered that a pyx is a sacred vessel, and quartz is a hard stone, as hard as the heart of a religious foe-curser.
Heyday came into my head; this fellow flings muck beds; he must be a quartz pyx.
Near the head of Sheep's Head Gully, Jack Moore and I found the cap of a quartz reef with visible gold in it.
Gleeson and Poynton accompanied him for some distance beyond the pillar of white quartz on Specimen Hill, and then he left the track and struck into the bush.
They followed Musters to a compartment in the rounded bow of the great ship, stared out of a quartz port between opened shutters.
The quartz ports, kept free from frost on the inside by a curtain of hot dry air blown over them through a slit, suddenly misted over on the outside, became opaque with a milky glaze of frost.
Syenite is a crystalline compound of a potash-felspar and hornblende, and quartz is frequently present.
Not unfrequently, however, the more or less irregularly ramifying, non-metalliferous veins appear as if they had segregated from the body of the rock in which they occur, as in the case of the quartz veins in granite.
What is the nature of the quartz veins in granite?
When the quartz in felstone is distinctly visible either as grains or crystals, the rock passes into a quartz-porphyry.
Quartz is the prevailing ingredient--sometimes clear, at other times white.
A mineral (such as quartz or feldspar) which is formed after the deposition of a sedimentary layer in which it occurs.
Containing chert: a dull-colored, flint-like quartz often found in limestone.
It is brown in color and is composed mostly of quartz with some black chert grains.
The rocks are of sandstone, in nearly horizontal strata, coated with a crust of crystallized quartz and coloured by a ferruginous oxide.
The hand that held the lump of quartz was trembling, and there was a tired, nervous palpitation apparently in the pit of his stomach.
He hit upon quartz that was so rotten that it was almost like clay, and here the gold was richer than ever.
Forty miles up the river, at what had been described to him as Quartz Creek, he came upon signs of Bob Henderson's work, and also at Australia Creek, thirty miles farther on.
A placer camp he knew was ephemeral, while a quartz camp abided, and he kept a score of men in the quest for months.
A quartz miner himself in his early youth, before coming to Alaska, he dreamed of finding the mother-lode.
Illustration: Quartz capsules] These sealed quartz capsules contain samples to be irradiated in a nuclear reactor.
At the scientist’s laboratory, each plate is carefully placed inside a quartz tube.
You carefully scrape off a small amount of material, weigh it on a sensitive balance, and put it into a short piece of pure quartz tubing.
You obtain from him a set of 50 quartz plates that have been ground on one side.
You break the quartztubes one at a time and attach each of the two pieces of silicon to a card with self-sticking tape.
After the samples are removed from the reactor, the scientist carefully breaks open each of the quartztubes and places the sample and the standard piece of wire in separate numbered plastic capsules with lids.
The quartz vein formed my central point of attraction in this wild paradise.
It contains also numerous veins and beds of hornblend rock and chlorite-schist, and of a peculiar-looking granite, of which the quartz is white as milk, and the feldspar red as blood.
All crystals, as quartz or diamonds, have been made by deposits from water.
Put gold-bearing quartz under an upright log shod with iron.
Further than this, migration is often interfered with by the more impervious quartz matrix of many gold deposits.
In a general way, a fair rule in gold quartz veins below influence of secondary alteration is that no point in the block shall be over fifty feet from the points sampled.
In quartz veins preëminently, evidence of enrichment in the third zone is likely to be practically absent.
Deposits of the fissure vein type, such as California quartz veins.
In fact, there was very little crushing in those days, quartz not being easily found sufficiently rich to make such work a paying concern, and it was therefore alluvial gold which was chiefly sought for.
By far the most common matrix of vein-gold is quartz or silica, but it is not the only one.
He tried to turn over the largest of the pieces with his stick; but he was astonished to find that the lump was much heavier than the ordinary quartz with which he was familiar.
One day a Natal trader named Tom M'Laughlin had occasion to cross this plateau in the course of a long trek, and he picked up with curiosity some of the bits of quartz he passed, or kicked aside, on the way.
The miner of fifty years ago never dreamt of machinery, costly and magnificent, capable of crushing thousands of tons of quartz per week.
But with one swing which he made came a turn in the fortunes of the band, and of the land, for he knocked off a bit of quartz so richly veined with gold as to betoken the existence of something superexcellent in the way of a 'reef.
Fused silica orquartz expands so slightly that it may be plunged when red-hot into water without being cracked.
The rock was composed of quartz pebbles of different colours, imbedded in a red clayey paste.
At their foot sienite, quartz rock, and leptinite, were observed.
Sandstone rock cropped out on several spots, and pieces of broken quartz were strewed over the ground.
During the journey we found granite changing into gneiss, diorite, and quartz rock.
At its left side a basaltic ridge rose, covered with thick scrub, and at its base extended a small plain, with black soil strewed with quartz pebbles.
In one of the creeks I observed pegmatite; pebbles of talc-schiste and of white quartzcovered the bed of the river.
Another rock was composed of felspar and large leaflets of white mica, or of quartz and white mica.
Basalt was, however, observed here about on several spots at the left bank, and quartz porphyry composed the ridges near our last encampment.
The ridges were covered with iron-coloured quartz pebbles, which rendered our bullocks footsore.
This was his system of helpfulness referred to by Miss Quartz Mica Hanker.
Then he crossed the room to where Miss Quartz Mica Hanker was sitting industriously idle.
Miss Quartz proved herself to be a far more apt student of the obscure than Miss Severn.
Working quartz claims and building quartz mills required the use of capital and of corporate methods.
Look at this stone you call granite, how rich is the variety; it is the baking together of the black mica, the white quartz and the pinkish feldspar.
Garnet, as a rule, is somewhat harder than quartz, its hardness being 7-1/2 in the scale of which quartz is 7.
It is quite heavy as compared with the quartz of which the sand is mostly composed, and hence continually accumulates on a beach, while the quartz is in part blown away.
By the latter part of May a number of good claims had been staked on Quartz Hill above Nevada Creek.
The closest source of water for the mines on Quartz Hill was Nevada Creek.
They found outcroppings of transparent quartz shot with crystallite and called the river and their little settlement, Crystal.
She was a simple little thing, and her heart was as pure as quartz crystal.
I walked up the narrow track that led up to the little gully with the moon shining down upon the white quartz rock.
The Prospectors' Arms became quite the go, and all the swell miners and quartz reefers began to meet there as a matter of course.
The rock towers on the other side of the range were shining and glittering like as if they were made of crystallisedquartz or diamonds--red and white.
There was nobody with them but their drivers, for every other human being had galloped on after Yellow Pine and Judge Parks until the old miner drew rein in front of a great mass of shattered, ragged, dirty looking quartz rock.
The gray granite stood out like shadows, and the white quartz glittered marvellously, but the Nez Percé boy had no time to admire them.
The judge had taken up a heavy hammer and was busily breaking masses of quartz to examine their quality, and the men had again gone at their building.
Judge Parks was at that moment examining some bits ofquartz he had picked up.
Little bits of dull yellow metal rewarded him every now and then until he worked along to where a ledge (or the edge of one) of quartz came nearly to the surface.
It was also pretty sure that every stroke of work they did added to their security, for neither arrow nor bullet will go through a wall of quartz and granite two feet in thickness.
The light of the sinking sun fell clearly and brightly upon the grand masses of quartz and granite rocks, and showed him the very point where the pathway seemed to end.
For unknown centuries it had been serving as a "bar" in the natural "washer" made by that ravine, and had caught and kept whatever the torrents had borne down from crumbling quartz rocks above and had drifted against it.
Clap after clap of thunder pealed through and from those dismal canyons, vibrating between Nature's slopes of granite, quartz and rock.
The whole body of the Granite of the Mount is traversed by an uninterrupted series of quartz veins, which run parallel to each other with wonderful regularity.
Ultra-violet light was obtained from a quartz mercury vapour lamp.
The source of light was a quartz mercury-vapour lamp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quartz" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alabaster; asphalt; mineral; stone; transparency
