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So how many pounds does it take for quartz to break into several diffrent peices?
What is the breaking point of quartz crystal
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Do you have any details at all? Quartz has no preferred plane of cleavage, so we're looking at fracture instead. The cleaner and the purer the crystal, the stronger it should be.
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