Meaning of rock crystal | Babel Free

Definitions

A clear, colorless form of the silica-based mineral quartz.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] I have for Trials sake taken Lumps of Rock Crystal, and Heating them Red hot in a Crucible, I found according to my Expectation, that being Quench’d in Fair water, even those that remain’d in seemingly entire Lumps, exchang’d their Translucency for Whiteness […]”

“[…] I saw his Body, in Episcopal Robes, lying upon the Altar in a Shrine of Rock-Crystal.”

“[…] there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes. Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal.”

“I wondered whether I ought to speak to Brideshead, but that grim, rock-crystal mask forbade all confidence.”

“At New Year he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal.”

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