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Definition of rock crystal in English: rock crystalnoun mass nounTransparent quartz, typically in the form of colourless hexagonal crystals. as modifier a rock crystal ball count noun Scottish beachcombers can expect rock crystals and cairngorms Example sentencesExamples - By a happy chance, the earliest postclassical European rock crystal vessels are at the same time the purest in terms of design.
- The few glass beads, and one of rock crystal, are also imports.
- A volcanic eruption, or magma rising and cooling close to the Earth's surface, will cause the formation of a wide variety of igneous rock crystals.
- A number of mysterious indications from ancient cultures link the use of rock crystals with communications through the air.
- Also of interest were objects of precious or semiprecious materials such as rock crystal - or natural wonders - such as nautilus shells.
- Prague once again became a great centre of hardstone - not to mention rock crystal - production in the later sixteenth century by virtue of the patronage of Emperor Rudolph II.
- A clear and colorless glass, called cristallo in Italian for its resemblance to rock crystal, was a widely sought Venetian product.
- Small flakes of rock crystal as well as axes, bone projectile points, and burials are known.
- The same people crafted stone tools of a satisfying symmetry that seemed to transcend mere utility, and to collect as objets trouvés, rock crystals, fossils and pebbles of pleasing shapes.
- Painting on the inside of snuff bottles made of rock crystal or glass was a great Qing innovation.
- If left to their own devices, pieces made of rock crystal will last forever, but they are of course unusually vulnerable to breakage and destruction.
- Qianlong, who reigned from 1736 to 1795 and died in 1799, was one of the greatest patrons and collectors of Chinese rock crystal carvings ever.
- However in the pagan period, rock crystal was used to make crystals balls about 2 inches in diameter.
- Crystal gazing seeks visions allegedly seen in a ball of rock crystal, preferably quartz.
- In 1986 the world's leading science journal announced that the most ancient rock crystals on earth, according to isotope dating methods, are 4.3 billion years old.
- Perhaps it was his ambition to have a career commensurate with his talent that led him to settle in Paris, where he distinguished himself over several decades by his cutting of rock crystal, his speciality.
- The rock crystal pieces were complemented by a positive kaleidoscope of coloured hardstones.
Definition of rock crystal in US English: rock crystalnounˈräk ˈˌkristlˈrɑk ˈˌkrɪstl Transparent quartz, typically in the form of colorless hexagonal crystals. as modifier a rock crystal ball count noun Scottish beachcombers can expect rock crystals and cairngorms Example sentencesExamples - A clear and colorless glass, called cristallo in Italian for its resemblance to rock crystal, was a widely sought Venetian product.
- By a happy chance, the earliest postclassical European rock crystal vessels are at the same time the purest in terms of design.
- Also of interest were objects of precious or semiprecious materials such as rock crystal - or natural wonders - such as nautilus shells.
- In 1986 the world's leading science journal announced that the most ancient rock crystals on earth, according to isotope dating methods, are 4.3 billion years old.
- Crystal gazing seeks visions allegedly seen in a ball of rock crystal, preferably quartz.
- Qianlong, who reigned from 1736 to 1795 and died in 1799, was one of the greatest patrons and collectors of Chinese rock crystal carvings ever.
- A number of mysterious indications from ancient cultures link the use of rock crystals with communications through the air.
- If left to their own devices, pieces made of rock crystal will last forever, but they are of course unusually vulnerable to breakage and destruction.
- Painting on the inside of snuff bottles made of rock crystal or glass was a great Qing innovation.
- Small flakes of rock crystal as well as axes, bone projectile points, and burials are known.
- Prague once again became a great centre of hardstone - not to mention rock crystal - production in the later sixteenth century by virtue of the patronage of Emperor Rudolph II.
- A volcanic eruption, or magma rising and cooling close to the Earth's surface, will cause the formation of a wide variety of igneous rock crystals.
- Perhaps it was his ambition to have a career commensurate with his talent that led him to settle in Paris, where he distinguished himself over several decades by his cutting of rock crystal, his speciality.
- The few glass beads, and one of rock crystal, are also imports.
- However in the pagan period, rock crystal was used to make crystals balls about 2 inches in diameter.
- The rock crystal pieces were complemented by a positive kaleidoscope of coloured hardstones.
- The same people crafted stone tools of a satisfying symmetry that seemed to transcend mere utility, and to collect as objets trouvés, rock crystals, fossils and pebbles of pleasing shapes.
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