How Are Quartz Crystals Cut and Polished? | Our Pastimes
Grinding, Sanding and Lapping. The quartz crystal is then polished by grinding and sanding. The grinding wheel is dotted with very coarse bumps made out of an extremely hard material such as silicon carbide. It spins rapidly and is pushed against the quartz to slowly wear it away into a chosen shape. Once the gem cutter creates a rough shape by ...
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