Zircon and detrital quartz have the potential to provide information regarding scalar changes to the Earth's weathering processes and silicon isotope composition. Due to the fact that there are currently few data on the Si isotope equilibrium fractionation of minerals, determining the source melt Si isotope composition from out-of-context minerals is difficult.
The term "quartz" comes from the Polish words "kwardy" and "twardy," both of which imply "hard" in English. Quartz is an igneous rock made up of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous structure called silicon-oxygen tetrahedra (SiO4). The ultimate chemical formula of quartz is SiO2, which is recognized in science as the result of the sharing of each oxygen atom between two tetrahedra atoms. In terms of mineral abundance in the continental crust of the earth, quartz is second only to feldspar. The two types of quartz which are known as regular alpha quartz and high-temperature beta quartz are both chiral materials. All of the alpha-to-beta quartz transformations take place at temperatures below 573 degrees Celsius.
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