Esempi dal corpus di testo per quartz crystal
1. This was astonishing given that pure, rock quartz crystal is only slightly softer than diamond and therefore incredibly difficult to carve.
2. But if a silicon crystal chip in a computer can store gigabytes of memory, then why shouldn‘t a piece of raw quartz crystal contain secrets of its own?
3. What most surprised them, however, was that our ‘primitive‘ ancestors had made the skull from exactly the type of quartz crystal that is a key component in computers today.
4. Since quartz crystal does not corrode, decay or otherwise change with time, it is impossible to date, but their tests showed that the object had been carved from one solid block of crystal.