Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.

Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth’s continental crust after feldspar. It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra giving an overall formula SiO2.There are many different varieties of quartz several of which are semi-precious gemstones.

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