As Quartz points out, text messaging has enabled mobile payments to become widely adopted in the developing world.
Cosentino marketing manager Lorenzo Marquez reports that three quarters of kitchen installers are offering quartz as an alternative to granite.
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It gets the majority of its revenue in the U.S., where the use of quartz as a counter material is relatively new but expanding, trailing more common materials like granite.
Another formidable competitor is Swatch Group, better known for the cheap plastic watches that helped save Switzerland when the quartz revolution looked as if it would relocate the entire watch industry to the Far East.
Mahmoud Nili of Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamadan for example, is using polypropylene fibres and quartz flour, known as fume, in his mix.
The trail is lined with honour-system huts hawking locally quarried quartz and crystals with prices as low as five francs.
Butz said the six "ovens" formed naturally as a result of spherical deposits of quartz eroding out of the phyllite rock face.
In the early 1980s, the Swiss watch industry faced looming catastrophe as it failed to realize the importance of quartz watches, even though the quartz watch had been invented in Switzerland in 1967.
As we stood on the hillside, overlooking the Quartz Reef vineyard below us and the several subregions across the lake, the multiple terraces, different exposures and other defining facets of certain vineyard areas became apparent.
The quartz movement does not require battery changes, as a rotor in the watch moves with the motion of your wrist to charge the internal battery.
To measure that, the four gyroscopes in Gravity Probe B are made of fused quartz spheres, which will not expand or contract as the temperature changes.
The smaller eggs offer a choice of materials, techniques and styles such as carved stones and minerals, as varied as rock crystal, chrysoprase, snowflake obsidian, lavender jade, jadeite, pink opal, rutilated quartz, jasper and turquoise.
The most beautiful, subdued and quiet section is the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall, a low-lit space with blackened vitrines in which objects are brilliantly lighted, as in an art museum: case after case of minerals you have heard of (gold, quartz and tourmaline), and others, even more dazzling, that you probably have not (rhodochrosite).
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The company makes highly durable engineered quartz countertops, a relatively high-priced item that is more expensive than laminate and costs as much as its arch rival, granite.
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