Despite his name, Cartier was no jeweller: he had found worthless quartz crystals and fool's gold.
But the big battle is convincing Americans to choose quartz over granite for their kitchen countertops.
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The iWatch, if it even exists, will not be a quartz movement nor a mechanical one.
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This is the same power source for things like quartz watches and kids' light-up sneakers.
Its breast is sculpted and engraved from a single block of either amethyst or rose quartz.
Coesite is a variant of quartz that forms only under intense heat and pressure.
An interesting analysis of how to win in the consumer electronics game from Quartz.
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For its domain, Quartz will drop all the more common characters in favor of the ultra-pithy qz.com.
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The trail is lined with honour-system huts hawking locally quarried quartz and crystals with prices as low as five francs.
With quartz no longer an acceptable option, relationships were formed with some of the top Swiss movement makers.
Rose and blue quartz stone sculptures by Ms. Abramovic are mounted to the wall near a bay window.
Barry was so happy, that he immediately got out his quartz-slab-prompter and spoke with great eloquence to the people.
As Quartz points out, text messaging has enabled mobile payments to become widely adopted in the developing world.
Not even the indestructible quartz surface will probably be able to shield the kibbutz from the tide of history.
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The funnel led to a carrousel of seventy-four quartz vials in its belly.
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Cosentino marketing manager Lorenzo Marquez reports that three quarters of kitchen installers are offering quartz as an alternative to granite.
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He also added a whopping 40 tons of Idaho quartz to the already 660 tons present throughout the structure.
The remaining deals of the week are from quartz-countertop maker Caesarstone Sdot-Yam Ltd. and Chinese online retailer Vipshop Holdings Ltd.
What makes this one so expensive is its color, size, arrangement on the piece of quartz, luster and excellent condition.
Quartz watches use very high-frequency oscillations of a crystal, which can be tuned with extreme precision to produce regular signals.
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Most photomasks are created by etching away a thin film of light-blocking chrome from the surface of a quartz plate.
Jalopnik based that question on a story last week from Quartz, the business site run by The Atlantic Monthly.
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In a quartz watch a battery runs current through a synthetic quartz crystal, which vibrates at 32, 600 beats per second.
The commercial quartz enterprise has even paved peaceful paths between Israel and other markets in the often politically harsh Middle East.
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The three new models employ the Precision Quartz Lock System (PQLS) for jitter-free reproduction of Blu-ray Disc, DVD and CD content.
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The brand would no longer produce mechanical watches, but only its interesting quartz-based timepieces that used special interfaces and display systems.
Among other things, Quartz aims to be the first business-news site designed primarily for consumption via tablets and other mobile devices.
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Butz said the six "ovens" formed naturally as a result of spherical deposits of quartz eroding out of the phyllite rock face.
These slightly deeper quartz grooves result in light-wave phases that are slightly askew from the light waves that pass through shallower grooves.
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