quartz crystal

noun

1. a thin plate or rod cut in certain directions from a piece of piezoelectric quartz and accurately ground so that it vibrates at a particular frequency

Example Sentences

A few minutes later, I walked up the street to an herbal apothecary that offers rose quartz crystals alongside dropper-bottle tinctures labeled “Happiness.”

From Los Angeles Times

James Zigras, who heads up Avant Mining, the largest quartz crystal producer in the U.S., says that his biggest mines are one to two acres in size and that his deepest is “maybe 120 feet.”

From National Geographic

"WASP-17b is extremely hot … and the pressure where the quartz crystals form high in the atmosphere is only about one-thousandth of what we experience on Earth’s surface," he said.

From Scientific American

The researchers determined the ages of pollen grains and tiny quartz crystals in sediments beside the footprints, which are buried a few feet below the surface.

From Scientific American

“This place is as good as it gets,” Losson said recently as he hoisted a small geode filled with quartz crystals.

From Los Angeles Times