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Definition of Smoky quartz
1. Noun. A smoky yellow or brown quartz.
Definition of Smoky quartz
1. Noun. A brown to black variety of quartz. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoky Quartz
Literary usage of Smoky quartz
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"smoky quartz.—At Taylorsville and Stony Point, North Carolina, ... In Alexander,
Burke, Catawba, and adjacent counties, smoky quartz crystals which would ..."
2. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"Magnetite, hematite, brown iron ore in large veins near Jackson (on u Bald face
mountain "), quartz crystal*, smoky quartz. BATH. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"-Among the crystalline varieties of quartz are rock crystal, amethyst, smoky
quartz, rose quartz, milky quartz, the mineral being colorless when pure, ..."
4. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1877)
"Magnetite, hematite, brown iron ore in large veins near Jackson (on " Bald face
mountain "), quartz crystal*, smoky quartz. BATH. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Among the crystalline varieties of quartz are rock crystal, amethyst, smoky
quartz, rose quartz, milky quartz, the mineral being colorless when pure, ..."
6. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1884)
"Magnetite, specular iron, brown iron ore in large veins near Jackson (on "Bald
face mountain "), quartz crystals, smoky quartz. ..."
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