“Quartz glass: A clear vitreous solid, formed by melting pure quartz, that can withstand high temperatures and is extremely transparent to infrared, visible, and ultraviolet…
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Quartz is the most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust. You can find quartz in sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks, and in geological curiosities like…
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Even though we look at the glass as one of the most common building material for various kitchen utensils, windows, wide variety of ornamental small…
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Quartz and calcite are common minerals in the rocks around the world. Both minerals form in a variety of colors, such as purple, white, brown,…
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A beaker is a cylindrical container used to store, mix and heat liquids in laboratories. Most are made of glass, but other non-corrosive materials, such…
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Bending and drawing glass tubing is a handy skill for managing laboratory glassware. Here is how to do it. Note About Glass There are two main types of…
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If you’re working in a lab or taking a lab class, you’ll encounter many different kinds of glassware, each of which has features that make…
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Glass is an amorphous form of matter. It is a solid. You may have heard different explanations about whether glass should be classified as a solid…
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Quartz and fluorite are two very different minerals, each with a different hardness and crystal structure, although on the surface they look very similar. Both…
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Quartz – chemical name silicon dioxide – is one of the most common minerals found on the earth’s surface. Quartz covers a wide variety of stones, many…
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Quartz and rock crystal are both abundant minerals found throughout the world in the Earth’s crust. According to Mindat.org, “Quartz is the most common mineral…
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Quartz is an old German word that originally meant something like hard or tough. It is the most common mineral in the continental crust, and the…
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Combining very high purity with outstanding high temperature properties, Momentive’s fused quartz tubing is an excellent candidate to consider for use in furnaces for processing…
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Glass is an amorphous solid. The term is usually applied to inorganic solids and not to plastics or other organics. Glasses do not have crystalline internal structure. They usually are hard and…
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