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are commonly grouped together and referred to as chalcedony. However, in the scientific literature, chalcedony is a specific form of silica consisting of fine intergrowths of both quartz and its monoclinic polymorph, moganite. Chalcedony is commonly translucent to opaque, while the macrocrystalline varieties of quartz tend to be more transparent.

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