Glass is not quartz. It is an amorphous solid and does not have a regular pattern for the alignment of the atoms required to be a crystal.
Glass is not quartz. It is an amorphous solid and does not have a regular pattern for the alignment of the atoms required to be a crystal.
thats like saying you crushed and a quartz crystal and messed with its atom alignment, now its no longer a crystal. when a quartz is subjected to heat and high pressures, the crystal forms shock lamellae "shocked quartz". and fused quartz is the same if you ask me. its quartz sand fused together with heat. still a bunch of crystals even if it has an "amorphous structure".
thats like saying you crushed and a quartz crystal and messed with its atom alignment, now its no longer a crystal. when a quartz is subjected to heat and high pressures, the crystal forms shock lamellae "shocked quartz". and fused quartz is the same if you ask me. its quartz sand fused together with heat. still a bunch of crystals even if it has an "amorphous structure".
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