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Re: [ATM] Quartz blanks

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Subject: Re: [ATM] Quartz blanks
From: Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:32:21 -0500
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Mel Bartels wrote:
>> quartz pieces for much less than $1500 USD. Can he used
>> so-called fused silica, BTW?
> 
> I thought they were essentially the same - is this correct/wrong?
> 
> Mel Bartels

My impression is that atm's use quartz, fused quartz and fused silica
loosely to mean the same thing.  Quartz is technically hexagonal
crystalline silicon dioxide.  Fused silica is non crystalline silicon
dioxide.  The Wikipedia articles are very helpful.

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Mark Holm
mdholm@telerama.com

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