According to the researchers, the tiny quartz particles in the upper atmosphere of WASP-17 b are likely similar in shape to the pointy hexagonal quartz prisms you might find sold in novelty shops ...

Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, scientists now say. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected quartz-like crystals around young stars just ...

Silica is made of silicon and oxygen, and it is the main ingredient in glass. When melted and crystallized, it can make the large hexagonal quartz crystals often sold as mystical tokens.

Photo by Xiaodi Wang. Recently, the National Gem and Gold-Silver Jewelry Testing Center at Zhengzhou examined a light yellow hexagonal piece of quartz (figure 1) weighing 22.18 g and measuring ...

Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, scientists now say. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected quartz-like crystals around young stars just ...

Quartz movements took a next step when light started charging the power source. Tissot started using light as a “fuel” in 2014 when it introduced the T-Touch Expert Solar. This year, the brand from Le ...

Silica is made of only silicon and oxygen and is the main ingredient in glass. When melted and crystallized, it can make the large hexagonal quartz crystals often sold as mystical tokens.