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RE: amethyst

I doubt you'll see anything in a microscope. The layering you speak of takes place at the atomic level.

The website i linked has some illustrations of the various crystal forms Quartz may take.


The various lattice structures of quartz, caused maybe by the conditions under which the quartz grows in nature.

http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/struk/sio2.html
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