The Origins of Crystals

The first crystals that we really started being fascinated with were quartz, like the ones that Tyler was mentioning. In Greek, they took the word cryos, which means frost, and then came up with the word crystallos, which Means crystal or ice. So quartz was the first crystal, I think, that we called a crystal because it looked similar enough.

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