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Most quartz movements are primarily electronic but are geared to drive mechanical hands on the face of the watch in order to provide a traditional analog display of the time, which is still preferred by some consumers.
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Most sandstone is composed of quartz and / or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust.
Most sedimentary rocks contain either quartz ( especially siliciclastic rocks ) or calcite ( especially carbonate rocks ).
Most inexpensive and medium-priced watches used mainly for timekeeping are electronic watches with quartz movements.
Most modern metronomes are electronic and use a quartz crystal to maintain accuracy, comparable to those used in wristwatches.
Most common in laser pumping applications is the " rod seal ", where the rod of the electrode is wetted with another type of glass and then bonded directly to a quartz tube.
Most commonly cracks and fissures opened by tectonic activity ( folding and faulting ) are partially filled by quartz, calcite, and other secondary minerals.
Most of the soil in Balikpapan contains yellow-reddish podsolic soil and alluvial and quartz sand, making it extremely prone to erosion.
Most of the sand, made of 98 % translucent, rounded-grain quartz, was transported from coastal sand dunes to the west, in what is now central Nevada.
# Most plentiful are rounded boulders and cobbles and angular fragments, all deeply weathered, of Half Dome quartz monzonite, the light-colored granite of which not only Half Dome, but all of the Little Yosemite and its surrounding heights are composed.
Most streams in the park have small amounts of gold, since it is constantly being removed from the quartz exposures by weathering.
Most and movements
Most traffic lights in Cairo appear not to function, but rather intersections are staffed by policemen who use subtle finger movements to indicate which cars may move.
Most prominent amongst them are the Naga fight for Greater Nagaland, the Chin struggle for a unified Chinland and other self-determinist movements by the ethnic indigenous peoples of the erstwhile Assam both under the British and post-British Assam under India.
Most civil rights movements relied on the technique of civil resistance, using nonviolent methods of struggle, to achieve their aims.
Most of the women attending the convention were active in Quaker or evangelical Methodist movements.
Most watches intended mainly for timekeeping today have electronic movements, with mechanical hands on the watch face indicating the time.
Finally, on 6 April 1793, the Convention created the Committee of Public Safety ( later headed by Maximilien Robespierre ), and was given a monumental task: “ To deal with the radical movements of the Enragés, food shortages and riots, the revolt in the Vendée and in Brittany, recent defeats of its armies, and the desertion of its commanding general .” Most notably, the Committee of Public Safety instated a policy of terror, and the guillotine began to fall on perceived enemies of the republic at an ever-increasing rate, beginning the period known today as the Reign of Terror.
Most species stay within their breeding range all year, but make short seasonal movements ; many individuals of the Ptarmigan ( called Rock Ptarmigan in America ) and Willow Grouse ( called Willow Ptarmigan in America ) migrate hundreds of kilometers.
Most harriers are placed in the genus Circus, the scientific name arising from the circling movements female and male make when courting.
Most of her statuettes were rigidly crafted and do not exhibit any expression of movements or dynamism ; this design was made to make them last a long time rather than to express any form of functions or actions she is associated with.
" Carpenter also predicted: " Most notably there is the issue posed by two persistent regional secession movements: the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south.
Most of the axons of the optic nerve terminate in the lateral geniculate nucleus from where information is relayed to the visual cortex, while other axons terminate in the pretectal nucleus and are involved in reflexive eye movements.
Most are at least partially mobile but many movements seem to be local, possibly between favourite haunts as the conditions change.
Most day traders exit positions before the market closes to avoid unmanageable risks — negative price gaps ( differences between the previous day's close and the next day's open bull price ) at the open — overnight price movements against the position held.
Most of the oldest recognized movements, dating to late 18th and 19th centuries, fought for specific social groups, such as the working class, peasants, whites, aristocrats, Protestants, men.
: Most aircraft movements annually ( 1999 – 2000, 2005 – present ); In 2007, Hartsfield again set the world's record for most aircraft movements in one year with 994, 346.
Most populations migrate to subtropical areas in winter, but this species is largely resident in westernmost Europe, apart from movements to favoured moulting grounds, such as the Wadden Sea on the north German coast.
Most commonly practiced are various movements with the hands as if one could hold onto air and pull their body in any possibly direction.
Most official accounts place responsibility for the attack on Sikh extremism, though many groups believe their movements have been unfairly blamed.
Most strokes involve rhythmic and coordinated movements of all major body parts — torso, arms, legs, hands, feet, and head.
Most Anarchists see liberation movements by oppressed people as fundamentally legitimate, be they " peasants ", " proletarians ", or bourgeoisie, without needing to fit these movements into a predetermined schema for revolution.
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Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.
Most Juniors who were entered in the Finals are seasoned campaigners and not only show and win in Junior Classes but score in the Breed Classes as well.
Most beakers are graduated in cubic centimeters ( cc. ), making it necessary to convert the result to cubic inches.
Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.
Most other desserts are fruit in some form, fresh fruits once daily at least, sometimes at snack time.
The general board declared: `` Most of the Protestant churches hold contraception and periodic continence to be morally right when the motives are right.
1 ) Most of the legends that are created to fan the fires of patriotism are essentially propagandistic and are not folk legends at all.
Most Jewish mothers are determined to exercise vigilance over the social and sexual lives of their daughters by keeping them home.
Most members of the U.S. Senate, because they are human, like to eat as high on the hog as they can.
Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.
Most references to " amoebas " or " amoebae " are to amoeboids in general rather than to the specific genus Amoeba.
Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters.
Most have four limbs and live in fresh water or on land but the caecilians, though included in the group, live in burrows in damp soil and are limbless.
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