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rock crystal en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A clear, colorless form of the silica-based mineral quartz.
    • At New Year he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, London: Fourth Estate, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 296:
    • […] there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes. Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal. 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter 1, in The Time Machine, New York: Henry Holt, page 24:
    • […] I have for Trials sake taken Lumps of Rock Crystal, and Heating them Red hot in a Crucible, I found according to my Expectation, that being Quench’d in Fair water, even those that remain’d in seemingly entire Lumps, exchang’d their Translucency for Whiteness […] 1664, Robert Boyle, chapter 1, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, London: Henry Herringman, page 114:
    • I wondered whether I ought to speak to Brideshead, but that grim, rock-crystal mask forbade all confidence. 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 5, in Brideshead Revisited, Boston: Little, Brown, page 131:
    • […] I saw his Body, in Episcopal Robes, lying upon the Altar in a Shrine of Rock-Crystal. 1718, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Part of Italy, London: J. Tonson, pages 22–23:

Forms

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Synonyms

pure quartz · clear quartz

Translations (18)

bg планински кристал (clear quartz) · it cristallo di rocca (clear quartz) · kl aligoq (clear quartz) · ru го́рный хруста́ль (clear quartz) · grc κρύσταλλος (clear quartz) · ro cristal de stâncă (clear quartz) · sv bergkristall (clear quartz) · pl kryształ górski (clear quartz) · da bjergkrystal (clear quartz) · wyi thŭn-dal (clear quartz) · fr cristal de roche (clear quartz) · ota صرچه (clear quartz) · mn уулын болор (clear quartz) · fi vuorikide (clear quartz) · de Bergkristall (clear quartz) · sah хайа курустаала (clear quartz) · es cristal de roca (clear quartz) · ota بللور (clear quartz)