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Crystals with Tyler Thrasher

SciShow Tangents

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The Different Types of Crystals

crystals can form with mixtures of different things. Like a ruby, I think, is like one thing with some other things in it. And opal, and quartz and glass, they all have a lot of the same components. But you know, you have one that's crystalline and one that's amorphous. So even with very similar roots, like their base atoms and molecules, I mean, you could get just a wide range of materials we ooh and awe at and wear around our bodies.

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