From the tools of Stone Age ancestors to records of Earth’s history, Yang Li and Xian-Hua Li explore how the properties of quartz place it at the heart of human innovation.
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Li, Y., Li, XH. Quartz for all time. Nat. Geosci. 16, 112 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01121-y
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