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Some clear quartz crystals can be treated using heat or gamma-irradiation to induce color where it would not otherwise have occurred naturally. Susceptibility to such treatments depends on the location from which the quartz was mined. [67] Prasiolite, an olive colored material, is produced by heat treatment; [68] natural prasiolite has also ...
Whereas quartz countertops are man-made, granite is a naturally occurring stone, quarried from the earth, then cut and polished into the countertop material so many know and love. Made of stern ...
Stain Resistance. Quartz countertops are more resistant to stains than quartzite. Natural stones like quartzite are more porous than engineered stone like quartz, which means they’re more ...
Stone sealer. Stone sealing is the application of a surface treatment to products constructed of natural stone to retard staining and corrosion. [1] All bulk natural stone is riddled with interconnected capillary channels that permit penetration by liquids and gases. This is true for igneous rock types such as granite and basalt, metamorphic ...
Prasiolite. Prasiolite (also known as green quartz, green amethyst or vermarine) is a green variety of quartz. Since 1950, almost all natural prasiolite has come from a small Brazilian mine, [citation needed] but it has also been mined in the Lower Silesia region of Poland. Naturally occurring prasiolite has also been found in the Thunder Bay ...
Sodium silicate is used as an alum coagulant and an iron flocculant in wastewater treatment plants. Sodium silicate binds to colloidal molecules, creating larger aggregates that sink to the bottom of the water column. The microscopic negatively charged particles suspended in water interact with sodium silicate.
U.S. standards recommend fluoride levels of 0.7 milligrams per liter of water, and the NTP’s conclusion applied to water fluorinated at 1.5 milligrams per liter and above.
Common topaz in its natural state is colorless, though trace element impurities can make it pale blue or golden brown to yellow-orange. [7] Topaz is often treated with heat or radiation to make it a deep blue, reddish-orange, pale green, pink, or purple. [8] Topaz is a nesosilicate mineral, and more specifically, an aluminosilicate mineral. [9]