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Drinking glasses
Quartz Quartz is used to make glass. It is melted down, and mixed with other ingredients to produce glass of many different sizes, shapes and colours.

Quartz is:

Hard
Rigid
Impermeable
Transparent (see-through)

Learn more about the minerals we use in the kitchen

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Krystal the quartz
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