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Rose quartz

Rose quartz is a translucent pink to rose-red variety of quartz. It is rarely found as a crystal and is far more common in massive form.

Among gemstones, rose quartz is considered a semiprecious stone that may be used in jewelry. Rose quartz stones that are nearly transparent are sometimes cut to make flat surfaces called facets, to better reflect light.

Images for kids

  • Quartz crystals on section of limestone core

    Quartz mineral embedded in limestone (top right of the sample), easily identifiable by its hexagonal form. It cannot be scratched by steel (see Mohs scale).

  • Transparency

    Quartz crystal demonstrating transparency

  • Quartz synthese

    A synthetic quartz crystal grown by the hydrothermal method, about 19 cm long and weighing about 127 grams

  • ArideGranite1

    ranite rock in the cliff of Gros la Tête on Aride Island, Seychelles. The thin (1–3 cm wide) brighter layers are quartz veins, formed during the late stages of crystallization of granitic magmas. They are sometimes called "hydrothermal veins".

  • Quartz-167895

    Herkimer diamond

  • Pure Quartz at Senckenberg Natural History Museum

    Rock crystal

  • Ametrin from Bolivia

    Ametrine

  • (61-365) Can you imagine? (5320329773)

    Amethyst

  • Quartz-Magnesioriebeckite-118652

    Blue quartz

  • Quartz-46809

    Chalcedony

  • Citrine 1 (Russie)

    Citrine

  • Quartz-159385

    Rose quartz

  • Quarzo, varietà prase, da avissalos, grecia

    Prasiolite

  • Quartz-159777

    Rutilated quartz

  • Quartz-154679

    Sceptred quartz

  • Quartz-168661

    Smoky quartz

  • Milan Jug with cut festoon decoration

    Rock crystal jug with cut festoon decoration by Milan workshop from the second half of the 16th century, National Museum in Warsaw. The city of Milan, apart from Prague and Florence, was the main Renaissance centre for crystal cutting.

  • Prototype synthetic quartz autoclave 1959

    Synthetic quartz crystals produced in the autoclave shown in Western Electric's pilot hydrothermal quartz plant in 1959

  • Ewer birds Louvre MR333

    Fatimid ewer in carved rock crystal (clear quartz) with gold lid, c. 1000.

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