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Definition of: quartz
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(kwôrts) noun
Silicon dioxide, SiO2, a hard, vitreous, widely distributed mineral occurring in many varieties, sometimes massive, as jasper and chalcedony: sometimes in colorless and transparent or diversely colored forms crystallizing in the hexagonal system. [<G quarz]
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