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Definition of Quartzy
1. a. Quartzose.
Definition of Quartzy
1. Adjective. Resembling or containing quartz. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quartzy
1. like quartz [adj QUARTZIER, QUARTZIEST]
Medical Definition of Quartzy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Quartzy
Literary usage of Quartzy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East-India by Edward Thornton (1854)
"... or rather quartzy 1 journ. A«. Soc. sandstone, and greywacke slate."
Herbert.4 however, maintains IL'nz. 1812, clii. . . of'mmn'ia^'tt"^ considered ..."
2. Outlines of an Attempt to Establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils on by William Martin (1809)
"... in which stones of the siliceous order are most abundant. A siliceous soil
may be a. 144. quartzy ( S. ..."
3. A Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut by Connecticut Geological Survey, Charles Upham Shepard (1837)
"177 quartzy mica-slate. Brownish white. Killingly, Bolles and Tyler's quarry.
... 1796 quartzy mica-slate. Greenish white. Killingly, near Young's factory. ..."
4. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Robert Jameson, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1819)
"2. ; this has resting upon it a bed of quartzy sandstone, in many parts equally
... Over these are alternations of beds of slate-clay and quartzy sandstone, ..."
5. Grand Feu Ceramics: A Practical Treatise on the Making of Fine Porcelain and by Taxile Doat, Charles Fergus Binns (1905)
"Cobalt blue for gres: Cobalt oxide 3,0 Bougival chalk 14,1 Feldspar from the
Pyrenees 42,1 *• oxidising quartzy sand of Nemours 27,2 Dry clayey kaolin of ..."
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