Quartz is a hard rock comprised of silicon

and oxygen atoms in a continuous tetrahedric

framework and most often appears as colourless

or white hexagonal prisms.

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It is often coloured by impuritieswhich

gives quartz a wide variety of colours.

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Structured, cellular, crystalline in nature,

Quartz is the second most abundant

mineral in Earth’s continentalcrust.

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It displays different colors depending

on the lighting and impurities.

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