white quartz

collocation in English

meaningsofwhiteandquartz

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white
adjective
uk
/waɪt/us
/waɪt/
of a colour like that of snow, milk, ...
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quartz
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkwɔːts/us
/ˈkwɔːrts/
a hard, transparent mineral substance, used in making electronic equipment and accurate watches ...
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(Definition ofwhiteandquartzfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Petri dishes onwhitequartzsand moistened with distilled water.
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The sculpture comprises four large copper plates with other elements made of red and green granite,whitequartz, and petrified wood.
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The pink color comes from grains of reddish hematite mixed withwhitequartz.
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The gold found in the mine was primarily small veins embedded inwhitequartzwith inclusions of iron pyrite (fool's gold), iron and sulfur.
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It is typically found growing in silica sands surrounded bywhitequartzgravel, which is the origin of the specific epithet "quartzicola".
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Thewhitequartzgravel reflects the sunlight, and is not as hot as the darker rocks and soil found in adjacent areas.
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In some cases, the basalt vesicles are over in diameter and are now filled bywhitequartz.
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Black micas andwhitequartzare also found.
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In 1867 a shepherd staged a hoax with awhitequartzgold find that lead to an aborted gold rush to the area.
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Sherds of ornate pottery, charred bones, flint tools andwhitequartzpebbles have been found in burial chambers.
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Its fine,whitequartzsand regularly wins comparison rankings of beach sand, yet complex structures are built during the competition.
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They occur as singles and groups on dark altered schist and onwhitequartz.
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Thought to be of high social standing, the body had been laid on a bed ofwhitequartzpebbles and an interwoven lattice of birch bark.
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Varying in thickness from 12 to 500 feet (4150 m), this rock slowly erodes intowhitequartzsand that often washes or blows away, but sometimes accumulates at large outcrops.
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Noticing somewhitequartzthat was foreign to the area he immediately realised that this would be a good place to search for the remains of primitive man.
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Whitequartzpebbles reinforce the structure.
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