Quartz

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Properties

Formula SiO2
Abbreviation Qz
Variants igneous, hydrothermal, granitic, metamorphic, volcanic phenocrysts, pegmatitic
Classification Silica
Members Agate, Chalcedony
Luminescence emitters (AlO4)0 hole traps, [AlO4|M+]- center, Dangling non-bridging oxygen ions, Defect, Fe, (H3O4)0 hole traps, (H4O4)0, Intrinsic defect, NBOHC, Oxygen orbitals?, Oxygen vacancy, Oxygen vacancy?, Self trapped exciton, Ti, Unspecified
Spectra Luminescence (5)
IMA Status Approved (IMA 1967 s.p.)
Search other databases webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, fluomin.org, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Related materials Coesite, Cristobalite, Mogánite, Seifertite, Stishovite, Tridymite
Tags Mineral, Simple oxide, Simple oxide

Composition

Element Atoms
Si 1
O 2
Total: 3

References

Reference Lines Spectra Images
Grant & White 1978 3 0 0
Gritsenko & Lisitsyn 1985 3 0 0
Götze 2000c 2 2 1
Holness & Watt 2001 3 0 0
Leeman et al. 2012 1 0 0
Luff & Townsend 1990 6 0 0
Moore & Karakus 1994 1 0 0
CSIRO CL spectra 2011 2 1 0
Preusser et al. 2009 4 0 0
Remond et al. 1992 3 0 0
Richter et al. 2003 9 0 0
Rink et al. 1993 9 0 0
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence 2 2 1
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence, other 0 2 0
Trukhin & Plaudis 1979 1 0 0
Vasyukova et al. 2013 1 0 0