Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shocked quartz

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English

Syllables: shocked quartz
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of quartz with an unusual microscopic structure that has been deformed along planes inside the crystal by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature; generally produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

shocked quartzes (plural)

Questions

What does shocked quartz mean?: A form of quartz with an unusual microscopic structure that has been deformed along planes inside the crystal by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature; generally produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.

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