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[11011010011 No.1254297]

Hello! Well, here comes someone who knows how to make quartz? I know it's a mineral that can take years to be created naturally, but can it be fooled with some chemistry?

[Anonymous No.1254298]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=make+quartz

[Anonymous No.1254299]

This brought back some memories.

[Anonymous No.1254665]

>>1254299
HAHAHA

[Anonymous No.1254762]

will this burn my eyes ?

[Anonymous No.1255011]

>>1254762
not at all

>>1254297
Not really, at least not feasibly. Quartz is basically glass with no additives so it's crystalline instead of amorphous. synthesis from the elements would require melting down an ingot of silicon in an oxygen atmosphere. I don't know how you would go about removing the impurities in glass to form quartz.

[Anonymous No.1255013]

>>1255011
Not all glass is made of silicon

[Anonymous No.1256553]

>>1254299
My hero. I thought about it. ..there was the one, with the steps mapped out, last one was profit. Feels of the old chan

[Anonymous No.1256576]

>>1255013
>Not all glass is made of silicon

[Anonymous No.1256848]

>>1256576
some glass is made from man made sapphire, watch faces for example, link related is about bullet proof glass made from the same

www.tssbulletproof.com/optically-clear-aluminum-provides-bulletproof-protection/

[Anonymous No.1256854]

>>1256848
link for watch crystals

http://shsilver.com/watch-blog/2015/5/21/exploring-different-types-of-watch-crystals

[Anonymous No.1256858]

>>1256576
also there are spin glasses and metal glasses

[Anonymous No.1256916]

>>1256848
>>1256858
"Glass" and "glasses" are as different as "Salt" and "salts". And sapphire and quartz are neither since they're crystalline solids, not amorphous solids which the term "glasses" refers to. When used, "quartz glass" or "sapphire glass" are misnomers or brand names.

[Anonymous No.1256926]

>>1256848
>some milk is made from soy
>>1256858
>also there is rice milk and almond milk

[Anonymous No.1257057]

>>1256926
To be fair, "glasses" is a scientifically correct term that refers amorphous solids in general, unlike the case of milk. But in this context, SiO2 is what is being discussed.

Quartz is typically insoluble, but if you dissolve it in concentrated hydrofluoric acid and neutralise the solution, you'll drop silica back out of solution, which you might be able to do slowly enough (with a burette full of a hydroxide, I guess) to produce crystals. This isn't a redox reaction though, so you can't grow crystals on a wire (which would require the quartz to be conductive).

Another thought is that you could produce a eutectic mixture of molten silica and some salt, hold it below the melting point of silica, and electrolyse the salt out of solution to solidify the quartz.

Not that any of these methods are easy.

[Anonymous No.1257272]

>>1254297

you could dissolve glass in HFl acid under a fume hood until it's completely saturated, add a binder to grab the silicon and oxygen from the acid, boil off the hydrogen and fluorine and then use electrolysis to precipitate SiO2.

but I'm no expert. do some homework.