[Rockhounds] Chinese Crystals on E-Bay

[Kevin Winter]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:31 PM,  <betdav97 at aol.com> wrote:
> ? Kevin,
>  ? Funny, quartz does have a conchoidal fracture, and can have bubbles
>  included in the crystal, some of which may contain water. The synthetic
>  crystals balls from China ave been pretty free of bubbles. It kind of sounds
>  like you may have bought a real crystal. However, if you are familiar with
>  glass bubbles and quartz bubbles, they are not the same.
>  Dave

I'm not familiar enough to say one way or the other, but these bubbles
have a definite swirling pattern to them, almost like someone was
pouring acrylic and stirred it but didn't let the bubbles settle out
before it set.  Thats what makes me suspicious.  They are all very
very small bubbles are are definitely gaseous.  There are quite a few,
at least dozens to hundreds of small bubbles smaller than a ballpoint
pen's ball.

On the other hand, if it is real, very cool =)  The specific one i
purchased had a seller registered in canada and with shipping it was
only about $30 (US) for a 2.6 Lb clear crystal.