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    Quartz
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    Mineral name and variations have been known since antiquity and predate any formal descriptive publication. For instance:
    Agricola G (1546) Book V. Quartz. in De Natura Fossilium, Froben (Basileae) 249-275  [view file]
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    Agricola G (1546) Book V. Quartz. in De Natura Fossilium, Froben (Basileae) 249-275  [view file]
    Agricola G (1530) Quarzum. in Georgii Agricolae Medici Bermannus, Sive De Re Metallica, in aedibus Frobenianis (Basileae) 88, 129  [view file]
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    Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II. Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates. Journal of the Chemical Society 1952, 1561-1571  [view file]
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    Ghent E D (1972) Electron microprobe study of allanite from the Mt. Falconer quartz monzonite pluton, Lower Taylor Valley, South Victoria Land, Antartica. The Canadian Mineralogist 11, 526-530  [view file]
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    Jayaraman A, Wood D L, Maines R G (1987) High-pressure Raman study of the vibrational modes in AlPO4 and SiO2 (α-quartz). Physical Review B 35, 8316-8321
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    Le Page Y, Donnay G (1976) Refinement of the crystal structure of low-quartz. Acta Crystallographica B32, 2456-2459
    Lentz D R, Fowler A D (1992) A dynamic model for graphic quartz-feldspar intergrowths in granitic pegmatites in the southwestern Grenville Province. The Canadian Mineralogist 30, 571-585  [view file]
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