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Quartz is silicon dioxide, SiO2. Quartz is abundant in the Earth's crust, being the chemically simplest form of the silicates. All the samples here are displayed in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. One of the distinctive varieties of quartz is called onyx. The samples at right have a maximum dimension of about 3.5 cm and are from Brazil.
石英是二氧化硅,SiO₂。石英在地壳中很丰富,是硅酸盐中化学最简单的形式。这里的所有样品均陈列在史密森尼自然历史博物馆中。石英的一种显著变种称为黑曜石。右边的样品最大尺寸约为3.5厘米,来自巴西。
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