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Quartz*: Rock crystal.
Etymology:
Quartz: From German Quarz | Rock crystal: From the Greek krystallos = ice coming from the belief of ice hardened foreve...
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Names) :
Quartz*: Rock crystal.
Etymology:
Quartz: From German Quarz | Rock crystal: From the Greek krystallos = ice coming from the belief of ice hardened forever...
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Silica dioxide SiO2.
Crystal whose growth stopped and then continued a few million years later and which kept the trace of this stopping. Sometimes layers of various mineral...
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Silica dioxide SiO2.
Crystal whose growth stopped and then continued a few million years later and which kept the trace of this stopping. Sometimes layers of various mineral...
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Etymology: from the Greek "barrus" = heavy, due to its high density.
Its genesis is mainly hydrothermal. It consists of barium, a crumb of lead, a hint of calcium and may co...
Presentation :
Etymology: from the Greek "barrus" = heavy, due to its high density.
Its genesis is mainly hydrothermal. It consists of barium, a crumb of lead, a hint of calcium and may co...
