shocked quartz

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.

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Meanings

nounshocked quartz (countable and uncountable, plural shocked quartzes)

plural shocked quartzes

  1. countableuncountablegeographyA 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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