shocked quartz (English, noun)
expansion: shocked quartz (countable and uncountable, plural shocked quartzes)
Senses:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: shocked quartzes
tags: plural