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In quartz, a three-dimentional framework is developed through the complete sharing of oxygen by adjacent silicon atoms. Thus, all of the bonds in quartz are of the strong silicon-oxygen type. Consequently, quartz is hard, resistant to weathering, and does not have cleavage!

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