Flint vs. Quartz — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Flint and Quartz
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Flint
Flint is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Flint was widely used historically to make stone tools and start fires.
Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.
Flint
A hard grey rock consisting of nearly pure silica (chert), occurring chiefly as nodules in chalk
Houses built of brick and flint
Flint implements
Quartz
A very hard mineral composed of silica, SiO2, found worldwide in many different types of rocks, including sandstone and granite. Varieties of quartz include agate, chalcedony, chert, flint, opal, and rock crystal.
Flint
A very hard, fine-grained quartz that sparks when struck with steel.
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Quartz
(mineral) The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO2. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.
Flint
A piece of flint used to produce a spark.
Quartz
Crystal meth: methamphetamine hydrochloride.
Flint
A small solid cylinder of a spark-producing alloy, used in lighters to ignite the fuel.
Quartz
A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.
Flint
A piece of flint used as a tool by prehistoric humans.
Quartz
Colorless glass made of almost pure silica
Flint
Something resembling flint in hardness
A jaw of flint.
Quartz
A hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities
Flint
A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
He used flint to make a fire.
Flint
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
Flint
A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
Flint
A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
Flint
(figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
Flint
(transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
Flint
A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
Flint
A piece of flint for striking fire; - formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
Flint
Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
Flint
A hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
Flint
A river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
Flint
A city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
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