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Quartz gemstone


  When quartz crystals contain tiny bubbles or liquid-filled fissures, they can produce a rainbow effect through light interference, making them suitable for exquisite jewelry. Empress Josephine, Napoleon's wife, possessed a dazzling collection of gems, including jewelry made from rainbow quartz.
  Quartz, due to various impurities, exhibits a wide range of colors and includes the following varieties:
  Rock crystal: colorless and transparent
  Amethyst: purple, transparent or translucent; its color can be removed by heating.
  Rose quartz: light rose color, dense and translucent.
  Smoky quartz: brown or brownish transparent variety. Its color is caused by radiation, where Si is replaced by Al, leading to a lack of paramagnetic centers in the tetrahedron. Further deepening of color results in black quartz (morion).
  Citrine: golden or lemon yellow

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