Quartz material is uniform throughout, which means the material rarely cracks from inherent flaws. Hot/cold cycles: Extreme heat followed by immediate cold can crack granite, though this is unusual.

Quartz is a crystal formed from silicon and oxygen with a chemical composition of SiO2. Most quartz forms when magma cools. As it cools, the silicon dioxide crystalizes, analogous to how cooling ...

This is important because the team says that if the quartz formed at the top of the core, the process would power the core convection to make the core act like a dynamo and power the magnetic ...

In a new paper, published this week in the journal PNAS, scientists have described for the first time the remarkable water-carrying abilities of the mineral stishovite, a unique form of quartz.

Scientists discovered silica mineral quartz in a primitive meteorite, becoming the first in the world to present direct evidence of silica condensation within the solar protoplanetary disk. They ...