Quartz
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Properties
| Formula | SiO2 |
| Abbreviation | Qz |
| Variants | glass, synthetic, pegmatitic, smoky, crystalline, igneous, volcanic phenocrysts, rose, hydrothermal, granitic, microcrystalline, metamorphic |
| Classification | Silica |
| Members | Agate, Amethyst, Flint, Chalcedony, Citrine, Jasper |
| Luminescence emitters | AlO4, (AlO4)0 hole traps, Dangling non-bridging oxygen ions, Defect, Extrinsic, Fe, FeO4, GeO4, (H3O4)0 hole traps, H4O4, Intrinsic, Intrinsic defect, Mn, NBOHC, Oxygen orbitals?, Reststrahlen, RSC, Self trapped exciton, Si-O, SiO4, SiOm[n-], Ti, TiO4, Unknown, 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 |
| Crystal symmetry | Amorphous |
| Tags | Mineral, Synthetic, Simple oxide, Simple oxide |
Composition
| Element | Atoms |
|---|---|
| Si | 1 |
| O | 2 |
| Total: | 3 |
References
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Lines | Spectra | Images | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence, other | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Trukhin & Plaudis 1979 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Vasyukova et al. 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 |