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Microsoft software component for handling and displaying digital video, including AVI, MPEG, and QuickTime, for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. Intended to replace Video for Windows. Originally codenamed Quartz, then released as as ActiveMovie. Now (May, 1998) DirectShow.
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The name was first used by miners in the Erzgebirge on the borders of Saxony and Bohemia. The modern word quartz was obviously derived from the same source. It is the commonest of all minerals and occurs all over the world. It occurs in many colors. The yellow variety, citrine, is named from the French for lemon in obvious allusion to its color. ...
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Next to feldspar, quartz is the most common mineral. It can be found in igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Quartz is made of crystalline silica, can be transparent or opaque, and can be nearly any color but is most often white, gray, pink, or light brown. Found in all five provinces of Virginia.
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The first of the glasses; the essential constituent of granite and porphyry.
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A caliber that uses the vibrations of a tiny crystal to maintain timing accuracy. The power comes from a battery that must be replaced about every 2-3 years. In recent years, new quartz technology enables the watch to recharge itself without battery replacement. This power is generated via body motion similar to an automatic mechanical watch, or powered by light through a solar cell (Kinetic & solar-tech).
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