How To Use smoky quartz In A Sentence
- Quartz is colourless when pure but minute amounts of impurities or lattice imperfections give rise to varieties such as amethyst, cairngorm, rose quartz, and smoky quartz.
- Yellow quartz is sometimes known as citrine; when the quartz presents a pale brown tint it is called "smoky quartz"; and when the brown is so deep that the stone appears almost black it is termed morion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
- The phenakite is also associated with albite, limonite, smoky quartz, and topaz and is often overlooked because it resembles quartz.
- Smoky quartz, topaz, and microcline variety amazonite from the Pikes Peak Granite and beryl variety aquamarine from Mount Antero are well-known Colorado gemstones from pegmatites.
- Epididymite was known several years ago from a few small (millimeter-sized) crystals that occurred on some specimens and also as inclusions of white acicular crystals in smoky quartz.
- This crystal was glassy and was found associated with smoky quartz, microcline-perthite, biotite, zircon, bastnasite, and limonite after siderite.
- The aegirine was associated with aesthetic smoky quartz, microcline, and zircon.
- There are two nouns morion kind of helmet, does not concern us here (it is probably from Spanish smoky quartz, has an interesting etymology: it is from a Latin word here about collimate, from an erroneous reading of Latin collineare; I wonder if there is a list somewhere of words with similar histories? Languagehat.com
- They collected several pegmatite pockets in which topaz was associated with both clear and smoky quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, fluorite, and cassiterite.
- There were smoky quartz crystals plus huge fluorite octahedra.
