100 Best Facts About Quartz for Kids

From its stunning crystalline structures to its role in technology and healing practices, these facts about quartz will help you better understand about the captivating world of quartz.

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From its abundance in the Earth’s crust to its prominent role in technology, spirituality, and healing practices, quartz has many interesting facts that will have you scratching your head. So get ready to be amazed by the wonders this extraordinary mineral has to offer.

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Best Facts About Quartz

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Quartz is made of the elements silicon and oxygen.
Quartz has a crystal structure.
Quartz is the second most abundant mineral on earth.
There are two types of quartz crystal systems, alpha quartz which is trigonal and beta quartz which is hexagonal.
Quartz crystals are typically six sided prisms that end in 6 sided pyramids.

Most geodes contain quartz crystals.
Sand and gravel have quartz in them.
Pure quartz is known as rock crystal or clear quartz.
Quartz countertops have quartz that has been mixed with other materials to create the finished products you find, like limestone, granite, and marble.
There are two types of quartz that have melting points: tridymite (1670 degrees C) and cristobalite (1713 degrees C)

Quartz can be as small as a speck of sand.
Iron is what makes jasper quartz yellow, orange, and brown.
The largest quartz crystal cluster was discovered in Namibia and weighs 31,085.18 pounds.
The largest quartz sphere weighs around 12,000 pounds and shaped from a quartz found in Bahia, Brazil.
Chalcedony quartz does not form visible crystals.

Quartz can conduct electricity under water.
Silicon metal is made by removing oxygen from quartz.
Glass can be made with sand quartz.
A Herkimer diamond is not really a diamond, but a quartz that resembles a diamond.
Tiger’s eye quartz was created in the sediments of long-extinct seas.

Quartz is used in electronics to transfer mechanical energy into an electrical signal that can be converted into mechanical movement.
Natural ametrine quartz is rare. Most ametrine you can buy today is either synthetic or heated amethyst.
Quartz countertops contain anywhere from 20% to 93% quartz.
Quartzite can convert mechanical energy into electrical energy, which is why it is used to make watches, clocks, and different electronics.
Quartz can act as a sort of cement in sedimentary rocks.

Quartz is almost always symmetrical
Crushed quartz is used to make sandpaper.
The name quartz was first used for this mineral by Georgius Agricola in 1530.
Cultured quartz is a pure form of quartz that has been manufactured and is often used in electronics.
Quartz rates a 7 out 10 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, which determines how hard a mineral is by how difficult it is to scratch its surface.

The name quartz comes from the German word “quarz” and comes from the Polish term “kwardy” and Czech word “tvrdy,” which mean solid or hard.
Sandstone is made mostly of quartz.
The purple of amethyst quartz is due to the presence of iron and missing electrons in the crystal structure.
Quartz turns into coesite and stishovite under very high pressure.
China, Japan, and Russia are the world’s leading producers of quartz.

The world’s largest crystal skull is a Brazilian smoky quartz weighing 348 pounds.
Pure quartz has no color,
Quartz can be found in all types of bedrock.
Nickel is what makes chrysoprase quartz green.
Iris quartz is found in geodes from west-central India and has a rainbow-like sheen.

Colored quartz has extra elements added to it that create its color.
The largest deposits of amethysts in the world are found in Brazil, France, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Russia, and Uruguay.
Granite has been used by many cultures as energy or healing stones.
Natural citrine is very rare. Most citrine you can buy today is actually really heated amethyst.
Quartzite holds a curved fracture that makes it fracture like glass when it is broken.

The earth’s crust is composed of 12% quartz.
Quartz has been mined in Brazil that weighed around 90,000 pounds.
Opals are quartz that have an additional water molecule.
Silica glass is actually fused quartz.
Quartz was used to make stone tools in prehistoric times.

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