What Is Quartz? How Does Quartz Form?
And What Are The Different Quartz?
On this earth, a very natural and most known mineral is quartz. Quartz is a hard, made of or
similar to crystals mineral formed of silicon and oxygen atoms. The atoms are structured as
silicon dioxide SiO₂ and in reality, each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, thus
making a complete SiO4 formula.
How Quartz is Formed?
The quartz is formed as the last chains of minerals to crystallize from the magma as they are
low-temperature minerals. The formation of quartz can also be noticed from the
recrystallization of pre-existing rock in the form of metamorphism.
Quartz has a huge variety of forms, habits, unique properties, and colors is the material that
many precious gemstones like citrine, amethyst, and agate are formed of, and is also the most
common component of sand. Because of various applications for quartz crystals due to their
unique properties and composition. Quartz crystals come in different forms each
distinguished by different colors and each of these colors has its own significant importance
Amethyst
This Quartz is very popular and comes in a color from bright to dark purple color. Amethyst
is a well-known mineral, purity, and gemstone and also called Purple Quartz.
Smoky Quartz
This Quartz is often found in gray color. The clarity of this type of Quartz can vary from
transparent to brownish-gray crystal and is also found in black color.