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Chemical: SiO2
Silicon dioxide
Color: clear, white, green, yellow
Luster: Vitreous, waxy, dull
Transparency: Transparent to opaque
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Cleavage: None
Streak: White
Hardness: 7
Crystal forms: Chalcedony is a
microcrystalline
variety of Quartz. It does
not occur as crystals but
is botryoidal, mammilary, stalactitic,
massive,
nodular,
as smooth rounded pebbles, as banded
masses, and in geodes.
Specific gravity: 2.6 - 2.7
Tenacity: Brittle
Many specimens fluoresce, usually
white or green |