Mineral: Quartz

Notes

The main crystalline mineral form of silica. White or milky quartz is an opaque white, greasy-looking and sharply angular very hard rock. Natural deposits of relatively pure quartz are plentiful and it is found in most rocks, it is is the most abundant mineral on earth and a fascinating study in the importance of considering the mineralogy of materials used in ceramics. For example, quartz and fused silica glass have the same chemistry, SiO2, but dramatically different physical properties (e.g. thermal expansion, hardness, specific gravity). From a theoretical perspective, quartz is a mineral. However in ceramics it is also considered a material, huge quantities of quartz powder are used in bodies and glazes.

Out Bound Links

• (URLs) Quartz on WikiPedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz
• (URLs) Wikipedia quartz inversion
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_inversion
• (URLs) Quartz MSDS at ilo.org
  http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safew...
• (Materials) Crystalline Silica - SiO2

  Quartz

• (URLs) Quartz mineralogy data
  http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/Quartz.pd...

In Bound Links

• (Materials) Clay 216

  Kil 216

• (Materials) Clay 215

  Kil 215

• (Materials) Clay 246
• (Materials) Clay 220

  Kil 220

• (Materials) Clay 220

  Kil 220

• (Materials) Clay 222

  Kil 222

• (Materials) Clay 232

  Kil 232

• (Materials) Clay 233

  Kil 233

• (Materials) Clay 244

  Kil 244

• (Materials) Clay 261
• (Materials) Feldspar 632

  Feldspat 632

• (Materials) Feldspar 635

  Feldspat 635

• (Materials) Feldspar 645

  Feldspat 645

• (Materials) Feldspar 661

  Feldspat 661

• (Materials) Kaolin 111

  Kaolen 111

• (Materials) Kaolin 113

  Kaolen 113

• (Materials) Kaolin 114

  Kaolen 114

• (Materials) Kaolin 115

  Kaolen 115

• (Materials) Kaolin 143

  Kaolen 143

• (Materials) Dolocron 4013 - 325 mesh Dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2
• (Materials) Dolowhite - White burning Dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2
• (Materials) Primas FA-200 Feldspar
• (Materials) F7 Feldspar - Soda Feldspar
• (Materials) F7/SE Feldspar - Soda Feldspar

  Feldspar Soda F7/SE

• (Materials) F7/SG Feldspar - Soda Feldspar
• (Materials) M74 Feldspar - Soda Feldspar
• (Materials) FM6 Feldspar - Sodium Potassium Feldspar
• (Materials) KM71 Feldspar - Potash Feldspar
• (Materials) P8 Quartz
• (Materials) P4 Quartz
• (Materials) P30 Quartz
• (Materials) VR4/MQ4 Quartz
• (Materials) VR16 Quartz
• (Materials) FK45 Feldspar - Sodium Potassium Feldspar
• (Materials) Aplite A/3
• (Materials) Ryolite S1

  Riolite S1

• (Materials) Newman Red Clay - High temperature red burning low plastic stoneware

  Newman Fireclay

• (Materials) Prestige AK - Ball clay

  Prestige Ball Clay

• (Materials) B Clay - Buff Firing Stoneware Clay

  3B, PR#3 B

• (Minerals) Quartzite

  Sandstone metamorphically converted to rock.

• (Minerals - Related) Granite

  Granite is a plutonic rock is found throughout the...

• (Materials - Mineral equivalent) Quartz - SiO2
• (Materials - Mineral equivalent) Silica - SiO2 - Quartz, Flint
• (Glossary) Mineral

  Ceramic minerals have a highly ordered atomic stru...

• (Materials - Contained) Pegmatite
• (Oxides - Closest mineral equivalent) SiO2 - Silicon Dioxide, Silica
• (Glossary) Cristobalite

  A crystalline form of silica (quartz is also) avai...

• (Materials - Mineral equivalent) Silica Sand
• (Materials - Contained) Kaolin 233
• (Glossary) Quartz Inversion

  At sudden volume change that occurs in ceramic bod...