Quartz

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Properties

Formula SiO2
Abbreviation Qz
Variants granitic, igneous, hydrothermal, volcanic phenocrysts, smoky, synthetic, metamorphic, microcrystalline, rose, pegmatitic
Classification Silica
Members Amethyst, Flint, Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Citrine
Luminescence emitters AlO4, (AlO4)0 hole traps, Dangling non-bridging oxygen ions, Defect, Extrinsic, Fe, FeO4, (H3O4)0 hole traps, H4O4, Intrinsic, Intrinsic defect, Mn, NBOHC, Oxygen orbitals?, Reststrahlen, RSC, Self trapped exciton, Si-O, SiO4, SiOm[n-], Ti, TiO4, Unspecified, UO2, Vacancy, Vacancy?, Various
Spectra Luminescence (5), Reflectance (3)
IMA Status Approved (IMA 1967 s.p.)
Search other databases webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Related materials Coesite, Cristobalite, Mogánite, Seifertite, Stishovite, Tridymite
Tags Mineral, Synthetic, Simple oxide, Simple oxide

Composition

Element Atoms
Si 1
O 2
Total: 3

References

Reference
Lines Spectra Images
Grant & White 1978 3 0 0
Gritsenko & Lisitsyn 1985 3 0 0
Götze 2000c 2 2 1
Holness & Watt 2001 3 0 0
Kuznetsov and Tarashchan 1988 14 0 0
Laukamp et al. 2021 9 0 0
Leeman et al. 2012 1 0 0
Luff & Townsend 1990 6 0 0
Moore & Karakus 1994 1 0 0
CSIRO CL spectra 2011 2 1 0
Pejcic et al. 2021 (EP2021-1148) 0 1 0
Preusser et al. 2009 4 0 0
CSIRO Reflectance (2025) 2 0 0
CSIRO Reflectance 2025b 0 2 0
Remond et al. 1992 3 0 0
Richter et al. 2003 9 0 0
Rink et al. 1993 9 0 0
Sittner et al. 2024 4 0 0
Stevens-Kalceff & Phillips 1995 11 0 0
Tarashchan 1978 11 0 0
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence 2 2 1
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence, other 0 2 0
Trukhin & Plaudis 1979 1 0 0
Vasyukova et al. 2013 1 0 0